Il più grande italiano di tutti i tempi ("The greatest Italian of all times") was an Italian television show based on the British100 Greatest Britons transmitted onRai 2 in January and February 2010.
It was presented byFrancesco Facchinetti andMartina Stella, in four sessions. The winner wasLeonardo da Vinci.The show was widely criticized and ignored by some historians in that it focussed mainly on personalities of recent history and today's Italian world. Some key figures of Italian history were largely ignored, including every figure fromAncient Rome,Popes and otherRoman Catholicclergy who had a decisive role in shaping the history of Italy. Also, the show had a very low share rate, 6%, due to the "unacceptable choice of representatives of the Italian culture such as Laura Pausini, definitely less important than genii such as Michelangelo and Donatello.
Out of the top ten before the start of the final by web ranking.