According to the Sky TG24 channel, an opinion column uses the expression "italiani alle vongole" (Italians with clams) to comment on the Lavitola-Ranucci case. The text recalls that the label originated in 1952 in Mario Pannunzio's magazine Il Mondo, as a condemnation of a society described as complacent and obscure. For the author, these same Italians are now experiencing their revenge. The column cites opinion polls commissioned by Valter Lavitola about the journalist Sigfrido Ranucci and points to Paolo Mieli and Stefano Cappellini, the current director of Repubblica, sitting at Lavitola's tables.
The argument traces the Italian publishing lineage. From Il Mondo came L'Espresso, which in 1955 published the headline "Capitale corrotta, nazione infectta" with Manlio Cancogni, and later Repubblica, founded by Eugenio Scalfari. The author recalls the style of that newspaper, with the drawings by Giorgio Forattini, the reports by Giampaolo Pansa on the Christian Democracy party, and the editor Carlo Caracciolo, a former partisan and friend of fellow editor Peppino Ciarrapico.
The text concludes with a literary image. Mieli and Cappellini appear as the Cat and the Fox of a Lavitola who would not be Pinocchio, but rather Lucignolo, in the Rome of power described as the City of Toys.
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Read the original article in Italian at Sky TG24.
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