“As the crash of one of the most coarse and crooked editions of the San Remo Festival is echoed far, Renato Dulbecco dies: scientist, father of the genome map, a Nobel laureate, former world-war-II partisan, and above all a gentleman. He entered Italians’ living rooms in 1999, on tiptoe, when he led San Remo next to Fabio Fazio with a grace that today we can only regret. “
Such are the opening words of an Italian newspaper on the death of Prof. Dulbecco, occurred at the age of 98 in California. In 1999, Dulbecco at the San Remo Festival gave me the impression of an adult joyfully attending a feast of kindergartners. Today I cannot help thinking that San Remo gives me the impression of a party of kindergartners who feel adults because they say bad words.
