Alberto Angela attacked by Catholics and communists: for some he should prepare more, for others he falsifies history

Harsh cross-attack against Alberto Angela: on the one hand theOsservatore Romano, a newspaper of reference of the Catholic world, and on the other the Communist Party of Marco Rizzo harshly criticize the popular TV popularizer. The Catholics’ criticism concerns certain statements he has made about the date of the eruption of Vesuvius: the day before yesterday, Angela, in an interview with Corriere, had said that the recently discovered inscription would confirm the theory, which he supports, of the eruption occurring in October. However, as we had reiterated in thearticle in which we spread the news of the discovery, it was a hypothesis that was already circulating among historians (but Alberto Angela is nevertheless aware that the theory was also supported by other scholars). The director of L’Osservatore Romano, Giovanni Maria Vian, criticized the popularizer’s claims: “with some exaggeration,” we read in an article published today in the newspaper, “Alberto Angela declared that his hypotheses (actually advanced by others) on the autumn date for the destruction of Pompeii were confirmed.” And recalling another episode in which Angela had been attacked, last August 30 (according to the Observer, in explaining the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, Angela allegedly called the patriarch Jacob “the grandfather of Jesus,” but in reality he was not referring to the patriarch), Vian comments, “What conclusion to draw from these little stories? That popularizing and emphasizing in the cultural sphere, especially these days, is certainly good (especially in Pompeii), but it should be done with some measure and, in the Sistine, with an additional minimum of attention and preparation.”

And also in these hours, as anticipated, very heavy attacks on Alberto Angela have also come from the Communist Party. In this case, the reference is to the latest episode of Ulysses, a well-known cultural popularization program, during which the deportations of Jews during the Nazis were discussed. In the episode, Alberto Angela claimed that the Soviet Union allegedly handed over its Jewish citizens to the Nazis, and the Communist Party disagrees. It read in an Oct. 15 tweet, “In the last episode of Ulysses it was claimed that the USSR handed over Jews to the Germans. FALSE. LURSS was a refuge for thousands of Jews and liberated most of the Nazi concentration camps. No more anti-communist historical equations and falsifications.”

Alberto Angela attacked by Catholics and communists: for some he should prepare more, for others he falsifies history

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