Hundreds of people march to the funeral home in the Hall of the Protomoteca in the Campidoglio to say one last goodbye to Maurizio Costanzo, who died yesterday at the age of 84. Maria De Filippi also arrived at the funeral home. Valerio Mastrandrea, Mara Venier, Pierluigi Diaco, Fiorello, Paola Barale are some of the well-known personalities who have come to pay tribute to Costanzo. Mastrandrea placed a white rose on the coffin.
The woman arrived through 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, wearing a suit and black glasses, continues to talk to her son to comfort him, also watching the stream of people arriving, to pay homage to her husband.
“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.” This is what Gianni Letta said as he left Maurizio Costanzo’s funeral home, where he arrived 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”.
This morning, the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, and two of the journalist’s children, director Saverio Costanzo and screenwriter Camilla Costanzo, were present at the arrival of the coffin at the Campidoglio. Among the first to arrive, Francesco Rutelli with his wife Barbara Palombelli and Emanuela Aureli. Four vases of white roses were brought in with the coffin. In the back of the room, between the crowns of the capital Rome and the Lazio region.
The Promoteca room will remain open today until 6 p.m. and will reopen tomorrow at 10 a.m. The funeral will take place on Monday at the Church of the Artists in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo.
“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.” That’s what the mayor of Rome says Robert Gualtieri at the exit of the Maurizio Costanzo funeral home in Campidoglio. “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”.
“He helped millions of Italians understand and explore life. In his witty, no-nonsense, nosy way of understanding what’s around the corner,” he said Franz Rutelli at the exit of the burial chamber for Maurizio Costanzo From 10:30 a.m. the uninterrupted flow of people of all ages began. Among the familiar faces who have arrived so far have also been Gianni Ippoliti, Mara Venier, Pierluigi Diaco, who burst into tears, Rudy Zerbi, Ermete Realacci and Valerio Mastandrea, who entered holding a rose.
“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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