''Il paradiso delle signore'' is an Italian period drama television series on

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Italian television, loosely based on the 1883 novel ''

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. The series focuses on the lives of the owner and workers of a department store based in

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Cast and characters

* Giuseppe Zeno: Pietro Mori * Giusy Buscemi: Teresa Iorio * Alessandro Tersigni: Vittorio Conti * Christiane Filangieri: Clara Mantovani * Lorena Cacciatore: Lucia Gritti * Giulia Vecchio: Anna Imbriani * Silvia Mazzieri: Silvana Maffeis * Corrado Tedeschi: Carlo Mandelli * Alice Torriani: Andreina Mandelli * Helene Nardini: Marina Mandelli * Andrea Pennacchi: Ezio Galli * Riccardo Leonelli: Federico Cazzaniga * Alessandro Averone: Bruno Jacobi * Filippo Scarafia: Roberto Landi * Claudia Vismara: Elsa Tadini *

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: Corrado Colombo * Cristiano Caccamo: Quinto Reggiani * Margherita Laterza: Monica Giuliani *

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: contessa * Antonio Milo: Giuseppe Iorio * Alessia Giuliani: Francesca Iorio *

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: Vincenzo Iorio *

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: Mario Iorio *

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: monsignor Razzi * Francesca Valtorta: Valeria Craveri * Paolo Bovani: Massimo * Guenda Goria: Violetta *

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: Umberto Guarnieri *

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: Adelaide di Sant'Erasmo * Gloria Radulescu: Marta Guarnieri * Enrico Oetiker: Riccardo Guarnieri * Francesco Maccarinelli: Luca Spinelli/Daniele Fonseca *

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: Luciano Cattaneo * Marta Richeldi: Silvia Cattaneo * Federica Girardello: Nicoletta Cattaneo * Alessandro Fella: Federico Cattaneo * Enrica Pintore: Clelia Calligaris/Clelia Bacchini *

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: Agnese Amato * Giulio Maria Corso: Antonio Amato *Neva Leoni: Concetta “Tina” Amato * Emanuel Caserio: Salvatore “Salvo” Amato * Giulia Petrungaro: Elena Montemurro * Federica De Benedittis: Roberta Pellegrino * Ilaria Rossi: Gabriella Rossi * Francesca Del Fa: Irene Cipriani * Giulia Arena: Ludovica Brancia Di Montalto * Sara Ricci: Anita Marini * Desirée Noferini: Lisa Conterno/Ada Manetti * Luca Capuano: Sandro Recalcati * Michele Cesari: Cesare Diamante * Jgor Barbazza: Oscar Bacchini * Gaia Messerklinger: Nora Vitali, in arte Lydia Stanton * Gianluca Ferrato: Bernardo

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Paradiso delle signore, Il RAI original programming 2015 Italian television series debuts 2010s Italian drama television series 2020s Italian drama television series Television shows set in Milan