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. Gigliola Cinquetti , then only 16, remains the only Castrocaro new talent festival's winner to win Sanremo the same year, and Non ho l'età the only Sanremo winning song to win also Eurovision until Måneskin in 2021. Non ho l'età was performed in Sanremo also by Italian.Belgian Patricia Carli and Cinquetti's win didn't please none other than Domenico Modugno who left furious and didn't save his words.... Two years later whoever he would win the festival with the very same La Cinquetti. Non ho l'età was and still is one of the most clear winners of Eurovision having won with 49 points vs runner up's 17. Read more about Gigliola Cinquetti (73) and her second time at Eurovision here