He was among the hundreds of people who gathered outside today Church of Artists on the Piazza del Popolo for the last farewell a Maurice Costanzothe journalist and TV presenter who died at the age of 84. Antonio Buoninconti, The 61-year-old didn’t want to miss the funeral of the man who says he saved his life in the 80s after he made his appeal during the “Maurizio Costanzo Show“, whose initials greeted the exit of the coffin from the church today.
To tell the story of Buoninconti, of Neapolitan origin, the Repubblica newspaper is visibly moved with correspondent Romina Marceca, who intercepted the man in front of the Artists’ Church.
“I owe my life to this man. It was 1984 when – the 61-year-old recalls – I was in the audience at the Maurizio Costanzo Show and stood up in full broadcast. I told him my story. i needed one Brain surgery for a tumor but I didn’t have the money and he listened to me”.
At the end of the program, Costanzo “put me in contact with a surgeon who made himself available, he was also in the audience that evening, like me. He operated on me a few weeks later in San Filippo Neri. I’ve driven up and down from Naples. Costanzo paid for the hotel and gave me 500,000 lire“. That evening, however, Costanzo himself asked the man not to announce his help.
The operation went well and since then – Buoninconti recalls – he has had no health problems.