Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988

Eurovision Song Contest 1988
Country	Italy
National selection
Selection process	Internal Selection
Selected artist(s)	Luca Barbarossa
Selected song	"Vivo (Ti scrivo)"
Finals performance
Final result	12th, 52 points
Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Italy was represented by Luca Barbarossa, with the song '"Vivo (Ti scrivo)", at the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 30 April in Dublin. As usual, the song and performer were chosen internally by broadcaster RAI.

At Eurovision

On the night of the final Barbarossa performed 18th in the running order, following Luxembourg and preceding France. At the close of the voting "Vivo (Ti scrivo)" had received 52 points (the highest being 8s from Finland, France and Switzerland), placing Italy 12th of the 21 entries. The Italian jury awarded its 12 points to the United Kingdom.

Points awarded to Italy

12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
		Finland France Switzerland	Spain
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Austria Yugoslavia	Turkey	Norway	Germany Luxembourg

Points awarded by Italy

12 points	United Kingdom
10 points	Sweden
8 points	Spain
7 points	Switzerland
6 points	Yugoslavia
5 points	Netherlands
4 points	Norway
3 points	Israel
2 points	Luxembourg
1 point	Iceland

See also

• Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Eurovision Song Contest 1988