How beautiful was “Lollo”, the natural diva of an Italy more sympathetic than ours

Sure, Lollo came from an Italy that emerged exhausted and hungry from the war and dreamed of abundance, precisely the physical, carnal, glandular. Thus, passed ‘a nuttata, already at the famous Miss Italy of 1947 was a triumph of ladies large shapes: in one fell swoop, Lucia Bosè, Gianna Maria Canale, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Silvana Mangano and, of course, Gina Lollobrigidaso different from the nervous and sporty beauties of the bundle. It was not yet a time for politically correct excommunications or accusations of sexism: the misses were asked about the measures, not what they thought of the condition of the woman; the confessed dream was that of the cinema, or at least of photo novels, not of being a magistrate (pay attention: all the current misses want to become a judge) or of committing themselves to some environmental cause. The background was still peasant, free-range, in the end naive: an imaginary of poor but beautiful, bread, love and fantasy, a whole Heart with measures 90-60-90 where obviously the donkey-backed bersagliere can only make inroads into the heart of the marshal with the rogue moustache, except to prefer the clumsy young beginner. Also a product for export, however, just like pizza and the mafia and soon clothes and furniture, so that Gina also intermittently depopulated in Hollywood: “the Atlantic chest”, the sublime Marcello Marchesi called it.