Paper funerals for Berlusconi
Travaglio the most ruthless, Renzi the smartest in the face of Berlusconi's death. Damato's Scratches
It's no use hiding it from you. The first newspaper I had the curiosity to see today, with the news of Silvio Berlusconi's death on all the front pages, except for the deliberately distracted one of Carlo De Benedetti's Domani , was Il Fatto Quotidiano . Which has not disregarded the worst predictions with that sort of manifesto on the "Republic of the Banana" that Marco Travaglio hopes may be dead with its founder, protagonist and so on.
THE BLE OF LABOR ABOUT BERLUSCONI
In an attack of bile, almost foreseeing the title "He won" that Maurizio Belpietro was preparing on his Verità , Travaglio thus described the scenario, in his opinion, horrendous set up for the last farewell to the extinct: "He died at 86 the founder of Fininvest and Forza Italia, head of 4 governments, offender for tax fraud, financier of the mafia and 9 times prescribed. The TVs beatify him to unified networks. Tomorrow the state funeral with Mattarella and also national mourning ".
I hope humanly and Christianly that some willing friend will not lose sight of the director of the Fatto between today and tomorrow, especially tomorrow, after the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella has entered the Milan Cathedral to pay homage to the deceased and to pray for him. I wouldn't want ours to do some madness, perhaps self-harming, desolate by so much entertainment. Or only lose faith brooding over the too sober title, perhaps, dedicated to Banana, as he calls it, from Avvenire , the newspaper of the Italian bishops: “Goodbye to Berlusconi, a leader who innovated. Is divided".
THE RUBY OF RENTI'S REFORMIST
If the funeral Oscar, let's call it that, of bad taste or political ferocity was earned by Travaglio, that of cunning perhaps belongs to Matteo Renzi. Who celebrated Berlusconi candidly on the Reformist with the title "There is no one like you". And in competition with the still partially owned Giornale , which hailed him as "the last Knight", wrote about him as only an admirer could, an adopted son, an aspiring heir, a royal baby of Ferraresque memory – from Giuliano Ferrara – could honestly have done.
“Berlusconi – Renzi recounted almost autobiographically – smiled because he loved life, because he savored it to the end, because he was capable of irony and self-irony. And it is with that smile, dear President, that we greet you today. You have been irrepressible and unpredictable. You've blown every pattern, every protocol. We will remember you as a man hungry for life. May the earth be light on you."
The counterpoint is that of the already mentioned Ferrara on the Foglio , who signed himself with his name and surname on the front page, like Renzi on the Riformista , thus writing of their mutual friend: "It is useless to retrace the labyrinth of his greatness, his mistakes, his cultural filth, of its sensational inventions, of its refinements, of its benign and outrageous language, of its enchantments”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/morte-berlusconi-travaglio-renzi/ on Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:04:29 +0000.