He would have made 70 today, the actor, director, singer and producer Francesco Nutithat of “Caruso Paskoski (of Polish father)”, of the “Puppa a pera” of the poignant “will be for you”. He was born in Florence on May 17, 1955 in via Rinuccini, near Piazza Puccini.
Today it was remembered with a toponymy plaque, which seems However, it was placed on another road, via S. Antonio, in the center. The municipal administration seems to have placed the placement with reference to what is reported in the birth certificate. It seems that at the origin of the positioning error of the license plate there is a discrepancy that refers to a declaration issued in 1991 by Nuti himself, in which he said that at the time it was born at home and he was born at the grandmother’s house.
As explained by his brother Giovanni, the error in the place of birth derives from the response that the director’s father gave to the municipal offices at the time, saying that Francesco was born “at home”: the cold bureaucracy, therefore, marked that the child was born in via Sant’Antonio and not in via Rinuccini.
«Today my father would have turned 70. And Florence has chosen to remember it publicly. For me this counts more than any address, via or civic. I thank the mayor from heart Sara Funarothe councilor Caterina Bitithe commissioner Giovanni Bettarini and, in particular, Mirco Rufilli, who has committed himself with sensitivity and respect from the first moment. Francesco was a man of heart, irony and poetry. He was born in a house full of love, he grew up between Florence and Prato, but he lived and will continue to live in the heart of those who followed him, loved him, listened to. I know well as this little confusion was born: my father was born in the house, in via Rinuccini, where my grandmother’s family lived at the time, but my grandfather recorded his birth at the registry by indicating the address of via Sant’Antonino 23, which was the residence of the family.
If there was a mistake, he was born in good faith from his grandfather, as often happened in those years. Reducing his memory to a controversy over an address is likely to make us lose sight of the profound meaning of this gesture: today is a plaque, yes. But it is also a sign, a recognition, an act of collective love. My father has never been definable by an address. He was an artist who lived in the soul of people, who entered the houses through the screen, the rooms, the music. Thanks Florence. Today is a beautiful day ». With these words Geneva Nutidaughter of Francesco, intervenes on the current debate on the commemorative plaque affixed today in Florence for the 70th birthday of the father.