Hundreds of people in the funeral home in the Hall of the Protomoteca in Campidoglio for the last farewell to Maurizio Costanzo, died yesterday at the age of 84. The woman Maria DeFilippi it came from a side entrance. With her, the couple’s adopted son, Gabriele, burst into tears. Together they took the front row seats for relatives and friends, and the presenter, dressed in a suit and black glasses, continues to talk to her son to comfort him, and also watches the stream of people honoring Arrive her husband and waiting for the coffin the Campidoglio two other sons of Costanzo, Camilla and Saverio.Valerio Mastrandrea, Mara Venier, Pierluigi Diaco, Fiorello, and Paola Barale Gianni Ippoliti, Mara Venier, and Pierluigi Diacowho burst into tears Rudy Zerbi, Ermete Realacci are some of the well-known personalities who have come to pay homage. Mastrandrea placed a white rose on the coffin.
The premiere Giorgia Meloni the Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri was welcomed into the funeral chamber
Prime Minister Meloni at Maurizio Costanzo’s funeral home with Maria De Filippi
Costanzo “leaves us a legacy of great journalism, able to communicate with everyone and to understand that the human dimension of things is very important. He was a man with ideas of his own but able to understand everyone , and he was very interested in the human character of people,” said Meloni as he left the funeral home. “There aren’t many who are capable of doing what he’s been doing in recent years – he added -. He was also a great discoverer of talent, a person who liked to try to understand what someone could say, who did not yet have great responsibility “. The Prime Minister explains that “I have very old memories of him. I can’t say I’m a talent that he discovered, but my very first television appearances were on the Maurizio Costanzo Show, I was about 17 years old. He a person who walked through our story and had his own clear view of events, we lose a great journalist.”
“Rarely have I seen an honor that was a referendum. It’s as if everyone in this country, young and old, bowed to Maurizio Costanzo.” He said so Gianni Letta, at the exit of Maurizio Costanzo’s funeral home, where he arrived together with his son Giampaolo, CEO of Medusa. “I have a beautiful, positive memory of him — he added — reaping all the important things he sowed in life.” Before others, “he understood the power of television, embraced it and managed it well , with intelligence and humanity like an enlightened ruler. Maurizio Costanzo is television”.
The emotions of Rutelli and Palombelli at the funeral home
Among the first to arrive Francesco Rutelli with his wife Barbara Palombelli and Emanuela Aureli. “He helped millions of Italians understand and explore life. In his witty, no-nonsense, nosy way of understanding what’s coming around the corner,” Rutelli said as he exited the funeral home.
“When Tg2 Post was born I called him up for his impressions and he gave them to me along with some very loving and kind advice which I appreciated. He was a master of television, I think he left an important mark on journalism and on Italian television. For this reason, too, we have decided, in agreement with the Palazzo Chigi, to proclaim the ceremonial burial.” The Minister of Education said so Gennaro Sangiuliano at the exit of the funeral home. The minister also recalled that he became friends with the journalist years ago while writing the biography of Giuseppe Prezzolini.
The solemn funeral will take place on Monday in the Church of the Artists in Piazza del Popolo in Rome
Farewell to Maurizio Costanzo
“There is a moving tribute by Roman men and women to a giant of television, culture and journalism like Maurizio Costanzo, who was also a man of exceptional professionalism and humanity. A very sweet and kind person, an unrivaled professional,” said he the mayor of Rome Robert Gualtieri at the exit of the funeral home. “The widespread reaction in the city proves how much he is a person to whom we all owe a lot and to whom Rome will pay due homage – he adds –. Now there is a collective hug from Rome for him, for his family and for the others “who wished well”.
“I learned life and humanity from him. One thing we always said to each other was that we met late. We tried to come up with ideas for the city we both love. I have discovered a person of very deep humanity, capable of speaking about things that are at the same time very deep and very light, of laughing and rejoicing,” said the former mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi at the exit of the burial chamber for Maurizio Costanzo in the room of the Protomoteca in Campidoglio.
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