Italy took its well deserved third victory - finally! - at the Eurovision song contest 2021. Over the years several other Italian entries would have been worthy winners. In this series I will go through all of them from the worst ranking to the winner s. Massimo Ranieri (70) got his first shot at Eurovision thanks to winning Canzonissima and his L'Amore é un attimo placed 5th out of 18. Read about him and his less fortunate second time here . Sanremo was won by Nicola Di Bari with Il cuore é uno zingaro , but he had to wait another year for Eurovision though.