In this character I found myself in the theme of freedom, a condition that she too sometimes, like me (or perhaps less so), struggles to manage. In the passionate and determined side of her but also fragile and romantic. She is a woman who I am sure, if I had met her, would have conveyed to me a sense of solidity and therefore of tranquility, in the sense that she is so centered that her being her also transmits it to others, and this makes one feel safe.
I would define her love story with Goffredo Mamoli as passionate, intellectual, mature, free, adult. Adele knows that she is second to another love, but the latter respects her and is not afraid of her. Theirs is a deep love story full of respect and mutual esteem.”
Fabrizio de Blasio
Mameli Rai miniseries, the plots of the episodes
First episode – Monday 12 February
Genoa, 1847. Goffredo Mameli is a young nineteen year old when he meets Marchesina Geronima Ferretti at a dance party. It’s love at first sight. Soon, in fact, the two discover that they have the same dreams and ideals. And yet Geronima’s mother, with ideas very different from those of her daughter and manipulated by the Jesuit Father Sinaldi, hinders the union between the two. And so, at the beginning of our story, young Mameli finds himself facing the loss of his beloved and his love. But then, unexpectedly, comes the meeting with Nino Bixio, who introduces Goffredo to the group of very young Genoese revolutionaries of the secret society “Entelema”. Together they begin to organize demonstrations and Goffredo, with his charisma and poetic talent, involuntarily becomes their leader.
Second episode – Monday 12 February
Thanks to the overwhelming enthusiasm of his new friends from Entelema, Goffredo finally manages to pick up the pen again, composing the Hymn that will consecrate him to History and which will be the very soul of the great Oregina event, where the Hymn it will be sung by over thirty thousand people, to the notes composed by the Turin-born Michele Novaro. Upon hearing the news of the insurrection in Milan against the Austrians (March 1848), Goffredo and his companions decide to take concrete action: they leave for Lombardy, taking up arms for the first time and experiencing the war conflict firsthand.