Sixty years and not to prove it: he is one of the most beloved faces of Italian TV, a real sex symbol, capable with his stories to thrill a vast audience and to make the peninsula and its thousand treasures known. Today, April 8, Alberto Angela turns 60. The great science popularizer, he is also a paleontologist, archaeologist and writer. Loved by all for its abilities, as well as for its charm. And on the threshold of this important milestone, it will debut this Saturday in prime time on Raiuno with the new season of its very successful broadcast "Ulysses, the pleasure of discovery".
Alberto Angela's long career
Born in Paris, Alberto Angela deepened his studies in important foreign universities. He graduated in Paris and then graduated in Natural Sciences with 110 cum laude from the La Sapienza University of Rome. He has a 30-year career to his credit. But before landing on TV, he worked in the field, in the field of archaeological research. And during an international expedition to Ethiopia in 1991 he was ambushed by local tribesmen. A shooting ensued from which he emerged unharmed. In 2002, however, while he was in the Sahara desert to make an episode of Ulysses, he was the victim of a kidnapping.
Alberto Angela's TV debut
His first television appearances together with his father Piero soon projected him among the protagonists of Italian TV. Together with him he has signed many episodes of "Superquark"And then take an autonomous road. In fact, following in the footsteps of his father, he has signed many programs of which he was presenter, with a single common denominator: to make the wonders of the country known, to tell the important historical and naturalistic discoveries with a simple and accessible language to all. Programs such as "Northwest Passage "," Tonight at ... " specials dedicated to cities and monuments to discover. And again "Ulysses, the pleasure of discovery", "wonders, the peninsula of treasures ".
His private life
Alberto Angela despite being very active on social media, very followed by 2 million people on Facebook, 80 on Twitter, is very reserved about private life. He has moved with Monica and has three children. "I will celebrate with my affections, in an intimate way - he said in a recent interview -. I will have to learn to say: “I am 60 years old”, because when I refer to age I always think that I am talking about another person. I see birthday as a scientific thing: it's sixty laps around the sun".
Many honors receipts. An honorary master's degree in Communication of cultural heritage in Palermo, with the motivation of "his long scientific activity and high training and dissemination expressly found in his books and television series, of which he is the author and host, which have made him famous throughout Italy". And one more Honorary Master's Degree in Archeology at the "Suor Orsola Benincasa" University, and Honorary Master's Degree in Philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont. He is Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on the initiative of the President of the Republic.
The debut of the new season of Ulysses
And so Saturday returns in prime time with the new season of "Ulysses, the pleasure of discovery ". Scientific popularization broadcast to tell many mysteries. One of the first will be the one on the sinking of the Titanic, with a special dedicated to the history but also to how little known there is still about that tragedy. And we are sure that with this new season Alberto Angela will continue to thrill the public who have been following him with interest for years.
The images are taken from Alberto Angela's official Facebook page
