12 points to Italy - the Italian Eurovision history told by Emanuele Lombardini

Italy returns to Eurovision after 14 years in 2011 when Raphael Gualazzi belts out his Madness of love as one of the Big5 in the final on May 14, 2011. Italy was one of the founding countries of Eurovision in 1956 and has delivered some of the most succesful evergreens over the years but in the 1980's and 1990's RAI seemed to have lost its interest until they finally dropped out after 1993