| Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 2023 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI) | |||
| Country |  Italy | |||
| Selection process | Sanremo Music Festival 2023 | |||
| Selection date | 11 February 2023 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Due vite" | |||
| Artist | Marco Mengoni | |||
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| Placement | ||||
| Final result | 4th, 350 points | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
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Italy was represented at theEurovision Song Contest 2023 with the song "Due vite", written byMarco Mengoni,Davide Petrella, and Davide Simonetta, and performed by Mengoni himself. The Italian participating broadcaster,Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI), announced in June 2022 that the winning performer(s) of theSanremo Music Festival 2023 would earn the right to represent them at the contest.[1]
Prior to the 2023 contest,Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI) had participated in theEurovision Song Contest representing Italy forty-six times since its first entry at the inaugural contest in1956.[2] Since then, it has won the contest on three occasions: in1964 with the song "Non ho l'età" performed byGigliola Cinquetti, in1990 with "Insieme: 1992" byToto Cutugno, and in2021 with "Zitti e buoni" byMåneskin. RAI has withdrawn from the Eurovision Song Contest a number of times, with its most recent absence spanning from 1998 until 2010. It made its return in2011, and its entry "Madness of Love", performed byRaphael Gualazzi, placed second—its highest result, to that point, since its victory in 1990. A number of top 10 placements followed in subsequent editions, including its third victory in 2021. As hosts in2022, it placed sixth with "Brividi" byMahmood andBlanco.[3]
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, RAI organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. Between 2011 and 2013 and since 2015, theSanremo Music Festival has regularly been used to select the Italian entrant to the contest, at first through an intermediate stage of internal selection among the contestants, and after 2014 (when a full internal selection took place), the winner of the festival has always earned theright of first refusal to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Italian broadcaster RAI confirmed that the performer that would represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 would be selected from the competing artists at theSanremo Music Festival 2023, the 73rd edition of the event. According to the rules of Sanremo 2023, the winner of the festival will earn the right to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest, but in case the artist is not available or refuses the offer, the organisers of the event reserve the right to choose someone else via their own criteria.[4] The competition took place between 7 and 11 February 2023, with the winner being selected on the last day of the festival.
For the fourth year in a row,Amadeus served as the artistic director and presenter of Sanremo,[5] alongsideEurovision 1970 participantGianni Morandi, and was joined on stage byChiara Ferragni,Francesca Fagnani,Paola Egonu andChiara Francini, each on a different night. 28 artists, six of which directly qualifying from the newcomers' sectionSanremo Giovani (held on 16 December 2022), competed in the festival. This took place over the course of five consecutive nights, articulated as follows:
The first 22 competing artists were announced on 4 December 2022.[6] On 16 December, the six artists qualifying from theSanremo Giovani section were announced, alongside the titles of all 28 competing songs.[7] Two former Eurovision Song Contest entrants were among the competing artists:Anna Oxa (1989) andMarco Mengoni (2013). Additionally,Mara Sattei's song was written byDamiano David, who won the2021 contest as the vocalist and frontman ofMåneskin.
The 28 Big Artists each performed their entry again for a final time on 11 February 2023. A combination of public televoting, press jury voting and demoscopic jury voting selected the top five to face a superfinal vote, then the winner of Sanremo 2023 was decided by a combination of public televoting (34%), demoscopic jury voting (33%) and press jury voting (33%). Marco Mengoni was declared the winner of the contest with the song "Due vite".[8]
| Draw | Artist | Song | Place |
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| 1 | Elodie | "Due" | 9 |
| 2 | Colla Zio | "Non mi va" | 20 |
| 3 | Mara Sattei | "Duemilaminuti" | 19 |
| 4 | Tananai | "Tango" | 5 |
| 5 | ColapesceDimartino | "Splash" | 10 |
| 6 | Giorgia | "Parole dette male" | 6 |
| 7 | Modà | "Lasciami" | 11 |
| 8 | Ultimo | "Alba" | 4 |
| 9 | Lazza | "Cenere" | 2 |
| 10 | Marco Mengoni | "Due vite" | 1 |
| 11 | Rosa Chemical | "Made in Italy" | 8 |
| 12 | I Cugini di Campagna | "Lettera 22" | 21 |
| 13 | Madame | "Il bene nel male" | 7 |
| 14 | Ariete | "Mare di guai" | 14 |
| 15 | Mr. Rain | "Supereroi" | 3 |
| 16 | Paola e Chiara | "Furore" | 17 |
| 17 | Levante | "Vivo" | 23 |
| 18 | LDA | "Se poi domani" | 15 |
| 19 | Coma_Cose | "L'addio" | 13 |
| 20 | Olly | "Polvere" | 24 |
| 21 | Articolo 31 | "Un bel viaggio" | 16 |
| 22 | Will | "Stupido" | 26 |
| 23 | Leo Gassmann | "Terzo cuore" | 18 |
| 24 | Gianmaria | "Mostro" | 22 |
| 25 | Anna Oxa | "Sali (Canto dell'anima)" | 25 |
| 26 | Shari | "Egoista" | 27 |
| 27 | Gianluca Grignani | "Quando ti manca il fiato" | 12 |
| 28 | Sethu | "Cause perse" | 28 |
| Draw | Artist | Song | Demoscopic jury (33%) | Press jury (33%) | Televote (34%) | Total | Place |
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| 1 | Ultimo | "Alba" | 4th | 5th | 20.39% | 12.25% | 4th |
| 2 | Tananai | "Tango" | 5th | 3rd | 11.15% | 11.15% | 5th |
| 3 | Lazza | "Cenere" | 3rd | 2nd | 18.28% | 16.64% | 2nd |
| 4 | Marco Mengoni | "Due vite" | 1st | 1st | 32.31% | 45.53% | 1st |
| 5 | Mr. Rain | "Supereroi" | 2nd | 4th | 17.87% | 14.43% | 3rd |
According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete in the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. As a member of the "Big Five", Italy automatically qualified to compete in the final on 13 May 2023. In addition to its participation in the final, Italy was also required to broadcast and vote in one of the two semi-finals. This was decided via a draw held during the semi-final allocation draw on 31 January 2023, when it was announced that Italy would be voting in the first semi-final.[9]
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The following members comprised the Italian jury:
| Draw | Country | Televote | |
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| Rank | Points | ||
| 01 |  Norway | 2 | 10 |
| 02 |  Malta | 12 | |
| 03 |  Serbia | 10 | 1 |
| 04 |  Latvia | 11 | |
| 05 |  Portugal | 9 | 2 |
| 06 |  Ireland | 14 | |
| 07 |  Croatia | 6 | 5 |
| 08 |  Switzerland | 7 | 4 |
| 09 |  Israel | 5 | 6 |
| 10 |  Moldova | 1 | 12 |
| 11 |  Sweden | 8 | 3 |
| 12 |  Azerbaijan | 15 | |
| 13 |  Czech Republic | 3 | 8 |
| 14 |  Netherlands | 13 | |
| 15 |  Finland | 4 | 7 |
| Draw | Country | Jury | Televote | |||||||
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| Juror 1 | Juror 2 | Juror 3 | Juror 4 | Juror 5 | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | ||
| 01 |  Austria | 10 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 19 | ||
| 02 | Portugal | 13 | 11 | 12 | 18 | 12 | 16 | 21 | ||
| 03 | Switzerland | 16 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 04 |  Poland | 15 | 24 | 13 | 17 | 25 | 19 | 13 | ||
| 05 | Serbia | 9 | 4 | 14 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 15 | |
| 06 |  France | 8 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 16 | ||
| 07 |  Cyprus | 17 | 21 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 11 | 11 | ||
| 08 |  Spain | 3 | 9 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 13 | 22 | ||
| 09 | Sweden | 14 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 3 |
| 10 |  Albania | 22 | 22 | 17 | 25 | 23 | 24 | 4 | 7 | |
| 11 | Italy | |||||||||
| 12 |  Estonia | 7 | 20 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 20 | |
| 13 | Finland | 21 | 23 | 18 | 20 | 24 | 23 | 5 | 6 | |
| 14 | Czech Republic | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 2 |
| 15 |  Australia | 20 | 19 | 9 | 19 | 16 | 18 | 23 | ||
| 16 |  Belgium | 18 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 12 | |
| 17 |  Armenia | 6 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 24 | |
| 18 | Moldova | 23 | 25 | 19 | 23 | 20 | 25 | 1 | 12 | |
| 19 |  Ukraine | 1 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 8 |
| 20 | Norway | 24 | 17 | 21 | 21 | 17 | 21 | 2 | 10 | |
| 21 |  Germany | 19 | 14 | 22 | 24 | 18 | 20 | 14 | ||
| 22 |  Lithuania | 5 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 17 | |
| 23 | Israel | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 5 |
| 24 |  Slovenia | 12 | 7 | 23 | 15 | 7 | 14 | 18 | ||
| 25 | Croatia | 25 | 16 | 24 | 22 | 21 | 22 | 7 | 4 | |
| 26 |  United Kingdom | 11 | 15 | 25 | 10 | 22 | 17 | 25 | ||
