{{Short description|Italian actress (born 1950)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Mita Medici | image = Mita Medici 73.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Patrizia Vistarini | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|8|20|df=y}} | birth_place = Rome, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{flatlist| *Actress *singer }} | other_names = Patrizia Perini | spouse = | father = Francesco Vistarini | relatives = Carla Vistarini (sister) }}
'''Patrizia Vistarini''' (born 20 August 1950), known professionally as '''Mita Medici''' and sometimes credited as '''Patrizia Perini''', is an Italian actress and singer.
== Biography == Born in Rome as Patrizia Vistarini, daughter of the actor Franco Silva, she was launched in 1965 by winning the "Miss Teenager" pageant.<ref>{{cite news|first=Jacopo|last=Granzotto|title=Creò Renato Zero e Patty Pravo: il "Piper club" compie 45 anni|language=it|url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/roma/creo_renato_zero_e_patty_pravo_piper_club_compie_45_anni/18-02-2010/articolo-id=423021-page=0-comments=1|accessdate=20 February 2012|newspaper=Il Giornale|date=18 February 2010}}</ref> Medici made her film debut in 1966, at 16, in Luciano Salce's ''How I Learned to Love Women''. She is also active in television, in which she hosted shows such as ''Canzonissima'' and ''Sereno variabile'' and appeared in several TV-series.<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=Enrico|editor-last=Lancia|editor-first2=Roberto|editor-last2=Poppi|title=Le attrici: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|series=Dizionario del cinema italiano|language=it|location=Rome|publisher=Gremese|year=2003|isbn=88-8440-214-X}}</ref> She was also a singer, active between late 60's and early 80's, and her main success was the song "A ruota libera", which in 1973 ranked 10 in the Italian Hit Parade.<ref name=hit>{{cite book|first=Dario|last=Salvatori|title=Storia dell'hit parade|language=it|location=Rome|publisher=Gremese|year=1989|isbn=88-7605-439-1}}</ref>
In 1968, she was the subject of the song "Mita, Mita, Mita" by progressive rock group Le Orme.<ref>{{cite book|first=Renato|last=Venturelli|title=Nessuno ci può giudicare: il lungo viaggio del cinema musicale 1930-1980|language=it|location=Rome|publisher=Fahrenheit 451|year=1998|isbn=88-86095-30-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Oronzo|last=Balzano|title=Ad gloriam: Le Orme e il beat|others=foreword by Nino Smeraldi; interviews with Aldo Tagliapietra, Claudio Galieti|language=it|location=Cerignola|publisher=Enter|year=2011|isbn=978-88-905822-4-0}}</ref>
Her elder sister Carla Vistarini is a song lyricist, novelist, playwright and scriptwriter. She's an atheist.<ref>{{Cite magazine|first=Lucio|last=Giordano|title=Quando ero bambina credevo in Dio, ma poi, a 12 anni, ho perduto la fede|language=it|magazine=Dipiù|date=5 April 2024|number=13|pages=78–81}}</ref>
==Discography== ===Studio albums=== *''…A ruota libera'' (1973) *''Per una volta'' (1975) ===Singles=== *"Questo amore finito così" (1969) *"Un posto per me/Avventura che nasce" (1970) *"Un amore/Una storia come tante" (1971) *"Quei giorni/Se ci sta lui" (1972) *"Ruota libera/Cosa vuoi che ti dica" (1973) *"Proprio così/Tremendo" (1973) *"Scappa scappa/Quei giorni" (1973) *"Chi sono/Nave" (1975) *"Uomo/Trucco" (1977) *"Paletta paletta/Mago tango" (1981) *"Ma che fiesta" feat. Gianni Dei (1989)
==Filmography== ===Films=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" !scope="col"|Year !scope="col"|Title !scope="col"|Role(s) !scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |- |rowspan="2"|1966 |''How I Learned to Love Women'' |Annamaria | |- |''L'estate'' |Elisabetta Fantoni | |- |rowspan="2"|1967 |''Don't Sting the Mosquito'' |Vanessa | |- |''Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te'' |Giuliana | |- |1968 |''Colpo di sole'' |Cristina Mancinelli | |- |1969 |''Plagio'' |Angela | |- |1970 |''Come ti chiami, amore mio?'' |Carola | |- |1980 |''Ombre'' |Patrizia | |- |1992 |''Gole ruggenti'' |Paolo's wife | |- |1993 |''Cinecittà... Cinecittà'' |Herself |Cameo appearance |- |1997 |''L'amico di Wang'' |Nurse Ambra | |- |2003 |''Amorfù'' |Rock poetess |Cameo appearance |- |2005 |''E se domani'' |Director Morandi | |- |2009 |''Feisbum'' |Doriana | |- |2011 |''Un milione di giorni'' |Maria | |}
===Television=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" !scope="col"|Year !scope="col"|Title !scope="col"|Role(s) !scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |- |1970 |''Coralba'' |Deborah Danon |Main role (5 episodes) |- |1974 |''The White Horse Inn'' |Ottilie Pesamenole |{{nowrap|Television film}} |- |1979 |''The Master of Ballantrae'' |Alison Graeme |Television film |- |1985 |''Murder of a Moderate Man'' |Regina |Recurring role (3 episodes) |- |1985, 1987 |''Aeroporto internazionale'' |Secretary |2 episodes |- |1989 |''Don Tonino'' |Journalist |Episode: "Il mistero di Villa Gruber" |- |1992 |''Il cielo non cade mai'' |Clara Negroni |Television film |- |1997–2003, 2013 |''Un posto al sole'' |Marisa Saviani |Recurring role (77 episodes) |- |2001 |''CentoVetrine'' |Paola Novelli |Recurring role (5 episodes) |- |2006–2008 |''Un ciclone in famiglia'' |Barbara |Main role (14 episodes) |- |rowspan="2"|2008 |''Provaci ancora prof!'' |Martina Maselli |Episode: "La prof della prof" |- |''Don Matteo'' |Silveria |Episode: "I segreti degli altri" |}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{Commons category}} * {{IMDb name|0575593}} * [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mita+Medici Mita Medici] at Discogs
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