“Double plagiarism in homage to his wife, who has plagiarized” – Libero Quotidiano

Vittorio Sgarbi sparked the controversy surrounding the words spoken by Roberto Benigni on the occasion of the retirement of the Leone D’Oro for career at the Venice Film Festival. The art critic, after accusing the actor of plagiarism for the words he spoke to his wife, comes back to accuse him. And on Twitter he writes: “The journalist Giuseppe Brindisi tells me that at the Venice Film Festival another sentence by Benigni, addressed to his wife, was, let’s say, ‘plagiarized’: ‘Love at first sight, at last sight , in eternal sight ‘. It is the declaration of love that Vladimir Nabokov he has Professor Humbert do his Lolita. There is no denying: Benigni was and continues to be a great ‘Pinocchio’ “.

Just yesterday, Friday 3 September, Sgarbi had given another version of the speech made by Benigni to his wife Nicoletta Braschi: “‘Being with you or being without you is the only way I have to measure time,’ Benigni said to his wife at the Venice Film Festival. But if you don’t mention the source (Jorge Luis Borges) and do the ‘phenomenon ‘, is it plagiarism? “.

The reaction of the users is immediate. And if there are those who follow what the art critic expressed: “That’s right a court jester as in the Courts of the Middle Ages, it is a pity that unlike those for him the saying ‘a laugh will bury you’ is not worth even a fingernail on his little finger, prone and bent over as he is to Power. Sadly poor fellow… “. There are also those who take part in the actor’s defense:” On my wall they are all deliberate quotes, given the context. No attempt to pass them off as his own would have been too trivial and stupid. Everything else is shit! “