Morta Elda Lanza, first Italian TV presenter

Morta Elda Lanza, journalist, author and first Italian TV presenter. He had 94 and a cancer seems to have killed him. To write it is the friend and colleague Mariano Sabatini, who had worked with her several times in the past: "Goodbye, dear Elda Lanza, first TV presenter! I want to always remember you like that, with a smile … thanks for everything. It has been a great lesson to be near you in these last hours. Cancer is just a disease and you were much, much more. You won". She was a close friend of the likes of Totò, Walter Chiari, Giorgio Gaber and many others.

She started on TV, as the first woman to run a solo program, in "For you, lady"directed by Franco Enriquez and remained there for two years in front of the cameras, bringing the most disparate topics to the small screen. Almost twenty years of success and hosted on TV and then decide to retire to devote himself completely to writing and, in particular, to the yellows.

Presence in TV programs

Expert in etiquette and lecturer in costume history, he worked with Michele Mirabella in 2011 as a guest, an expert on the subject, in the Apprescindere program on Rai 3. Then Giancarlo Magalli wanted her to Your facts on Rai 2 and in 2012 she was recruited from Cairo on La7 to give short lectures on style Menu by Benedetta Parodi. Since then it has been a succession of hosted TV to give her a way to talk about etiquette, costume and writing in general, being a crime novelist with a marked humanity and compared, for this reason, to Andrea Camilleri and Jessica Fletcher. In 2017-2018 it was included among the tutors of Said done with Caterina Balivo on Rai 2, once again as an expert in etiquette and costume history, in the classic afternoon slot dedicated to bon ton.

Private life and awards

She was married for 70 years with the advertiser Vitaliano Damioli, from whom she had a son named Massimo Pietro Damioli, called Max. In 2013 she was awarded the plaque of merit Citta di Giulianova during the Festival of Literature and, in the December of the same year, President Giorgio Napolitano appointed her Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.