RIP Tamara Baroni

 

Tamara Baroni died in Brazil. He was 75 years old. She was a controversial icon of Parmesan beauty

 

Gazzetta di Parma

December 30, 2022

 

Tamara Baroni died: after a short illness she died at 10.22 pm on Tuesday 28 December at her home in Natal, Brazil. He was 75 years old. In a few days she would have celebrated his 76th birthday.

"We did not expect it - says her daughter Viviana - a few hours before she had sent me the goodnight message on her mobile phone. She had only recently been ill, we didn't think everything would fall so fast." To remember her and to pray for her, there will be a ceremony in the church of Santa Maria del Rosario on January 3, her birthday, at 5 pm: "So that we the family, together with all her friends can pray together for her". The funeral in Natal will be celebrated on Sunday, January 1.

Tamara, who had lost her husband Gianni Garbellini in 2014 (he had died following a fall: he had fallen from the roof of their house in Natal, while arranging tiles) leaves her large family of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The daughters Viviana and Sara, Ciro and Marco, with their sons and their respective families.

Tamara Baroni, born in Parma on January 3, 1947, attended the master's degree at the Maestre Luigine of Parma, obtaining the diploma of a teacher at the age of 16. Married at 18 with Giuseppe Berteli (the marriage concluded a few years later with an annulment of the Sacred Rota), she was already the mother of a daughter, Viviana, at the age of 19. Immediately after she worked as a model and model (she worked for Max Mara, Colgate on TV, Faber, etc.), she won the title of Miss Italy (she was named Miss Elegance because she was married and the regulation of Miss Italy excluded married women at the time) and ranked fourth at Miss World. She had a relationship with Bubi Bormioli (of which there was a lot of talk). At that time she assiduously attended, for a while, the world of the dolce vita of the playboys, of which, however, she soon got tired.

She embraced a theatrical career with Domenico Modugno, but the Bormioli scandal landed her in prison for 47 days.

Found innocent, she began singing with Iller Pattacini (whom she later married) and his orchestra. Back in '74 at the theater with Ric and Gian ("The Women's Doctor") for two years, she was then the prima donna in a magazine in which she sang, danced and acted, for another two years. She starred in a comedy written for her by Leo Chiosso ("What do I care if the world made me fatal?!") and then threw herself on Tennesse Williams with "Zoo di vetro" and later on Sartre in "Le mani sporche", with Arnaldo Ninchi.

Courted by the greatest Italian directors, she took part in only a few films, after her prison release, but she always preferred the theater. She has written a regular column in Playboy, for which she has also posed nude. For family reasons, she left the show at the time when it was most in demand in the theater, at the age of 30. She continued for two more years to sing with Pattacini, then divorced him and the village of Reggiano, Barco di Bibbiano), where she lived with him and her daughter Viviana, who had been entrusted to her after years of struggle with Giuseppe Berteli, her first husband.

At that time she moved to Parma, where she began writing for local newspapers, telling mainly about her many travels around the world. Feminist and radical, especially out of gratitude, because the radical party had fought with her for the custody of her daughter Viviana, who then chose to return to her father. At that time Tamara was attending Corrado Costa, her lawyer and friend, who encouraged her to write a book of poems, Sotto identiche cose to be part of the Intrapresa group and to write for the literary magazine "Alfabeta." Then Tamara presented the book in the form of a show in Milan (at the Teatro di Porta Romana), in June 1982, with great success.

Tamara Baroni then met Gianni Garbellini, financial manager of Milan, who later became her third husband. In 1983 their first son, Ciro, was born and in 1985 their second daughter Sara, was born in Parma. Then Tamara left Italy with her husband and children to go and live in Brazil, a country she knew very well. She settled with her family in 1987 in Natal, where, the following year, her third child, Marco, was born. Tamara, who currently dealt in real estate, had a riding school, wrote another book of poems in Portuguese, "Constelaçâo mulher", and is part of the Academia das letras.

A few years ago she was interviewed by Pippo Baudo for the 900 broadcast and in May 2009 by Alda d'Eusanio in Rome for the program "Ricominciare". Then she published her memoirs online, with the book-blog entitled "Tamara la parmigiana".

BARONI, Tamara

Born: 1/3/1947, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Died: 12/28/2022, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

 

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