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"That time at the Quirinale, though, the ‘risk' was much greater.
When Carlo Orsi entered the President’s room, Sandro Pertini was absorbed in reading the newspapers and didn’t notice his presence.
Pertini kept reading. Orsi kept shooting.
Pertini read. Orsi cried.
That photograph is not just a portrait.
It is an act of love—and at the same time, the story of an Italian."
(Marco Pastonesi)
Sandro Pertini (1896-1990) was elected the seventh President of the Italian Republic in 1978.
A lawyer by training, he served on the Isonzo Front during World War I, earning a silver medal for valor. After the conflict he joined the Socialist Party and in the 1920s distinguished himself for his courageous opposition to fascism: between 1925 and 1929 he suffered multiple convictions, political exile, and imprisonment in Regina Coeli prison in Rome, from which he escaped in 1944 along with Giuseppe Saragat.
After the war he was elected to the Constituent Assembly and from 1968 to 1976 led the Chamber of Deputies. On July 8, 1978, at a delicate moment marked by the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, he was elected President of the Republic, a position he held until 1985. As a charismatic statesman, he authoritatively embodied the values of anti-fascism, solidarity and social justice, and closeness to the people, also distinguishing himself by his firmness against the Brigate Rosse.
In July-August 1982, while he was President, the magazine “L'Uomo Vogue” dedicated the cover of issue 121 to him and a photo essay published inside, a four-page report edited by Mariella Alberini. The portraits by Carlo Orsi, taken at the Quirinale, offer a humanized image of the President.
"That time at the Quirinale, though, the ‘risk' was much greater.
When Carlo Orsi entered the President’s room, Sandro Pertini was absorbed in reading the newspapers and didn’t notice his presence.
Pertini kept reading. Orsi kept shooting.
Pertini read. Orsi cried.
That photograph is not just a portrait.
It is an act of love—and at the same time, the story of an Italian."
(Marco Pastonesi)
Sandro Pertini (1896-1990) was elected the seventh President of the Italian Republic in 1978.
A lawyer by training, he served on the Isonzo Front during World War I, earning a silver medal for valor. After the conflict he joined the Socialist Party and in the 1920s distinguished himself for his courageous opposition to fascism: between 1925 and 1929 he suffered multiple convictions, political exile, and imprisonment in Regina Coeli prison in Rome, from which he escaped in 1944 along with Giuseppe Saragat.
After the war he was elected to the Constituent Assembly and from 1968 to 1976 led the Chamber of Deputies. On July 8, 1978, at a delicate moment marked by the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, he was elected President of the Republic, a position he held until 1985. As a charismatic statesman, he authoritatively embodied the values of anti-fascism, solidarity and social justice, and closeness to the people, also distinguishing himself by his firmness against the Brigate Rosse.
In July-August 1982, while he was President, the magazine “L'Uomo Vogue” dedicated the cover of issue 121 to him and a photo essay published inside, a four-page report edited by Mariella Alberini. The portraits by Carlo Orsi, taken at the Quirinale, offer a humanized image of the President.
Il Presidente articolo di Mariella Alberini
L'uomo Vogue, N. 121
Edizioni Condé Nast
Luglio/agosto 1982
Copertina L'uomo Vogue, N. 121
Edizioni Condé Nast
Luglio/agosto 1982
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