(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 03 - The relationship between women and power, from Agrippina to Teodolinda to Eleanor Roosevelt;
the figures of great historians, from Herodotus to Marc Bloch;
the telling of history through the great novels, from War and Peace to the Odyssey to the Leopard.
Stories, characters and topics that will accompany the ninety new episodes of "Passato e Presente", the daily program of historical analysis produced by Rai Cultura and hosted by Paolo Mieli which returns with its sixth edition starting from 5 December at 1.15 pm on Rai3 and at 8.30 pm on Rai History.
The relationship between women and power will be analysed, just when the first female premier arrives in Italy.
"It's true, but we actually started preparing the program before Giorgia Meloni's victory - explains Mieli in an interview with ANSA -. Beyond this, it is interesting to see how, contrary to what many think, in history Even in the ancient world, there are many women who have taken power and played a leading role.
Many women of command who have already broken through the crystal roof".
One of the strands is the telling of history through great novels.
"Novels have often left a greater trace of history than the history books themselves.
We know some events better through novels or even through films (and I don't exclude that in the future we will also deal with these).
For example Gone with the Wind, which is both a novel and a film, has told American history flawlessly and also courageously, because it reports the events of the civil war not on the side of the victors, but of the vanquished.
Or The Leopard and War and Peace, which tell the story in a very precise way: I am certainly not referring to the characters, but to the context, to the factual data, which completely correspond to reality". (ANSA).