The greatest fear, he says Dario Vergassola, actor and writer from La Spezia, is that now «everything will stop», projects and development. «The underpass, the dam, the large infrastructures, the third crossing, the fast train», lists Professor Bassetti, a true Genoese. While this land, all of Liguria, still has the fury to grow because despite the hyperactivity of its governor, «the train from Genoa to Milan takes another hour and 45 minutes just like when I took it as a boy for my debut in the theatre”, he points out Luca Bizzarri, every Tuesday on stage by Giovanni Floris on La7 with his “twin” Paolo Kessisoglu.
Bizzarri today feels “neither innocent nor guilty”, but “always vouches, with the likeable and the unpleasant”. He made this premise, he, together with Toti, was president of the Palazzo Ducale Foundation, a true institution, «We didn’t break up very well, perhaps with Mayor Bucci they thought I was more malleable, they told me: You’re a comedian so you’ll have to continue making fun of us anyway. And I did, but in the end he must not have liked it very much. I love him anyway, on the Morandi Bridge Toti was good, even though Genoa has lost thousands of inhabitants in 20 years, especially those in the 20-40 age group, companies and jobs have disappeared.”
There is a lot of disillusionment in their words, but the old love is intact. Camalli and caruggi forever. Genoa and «its deadly junctions», as in De Gregori’s song, which is a moment to crash if you end up getting too distracted. «My heart expands – says Bassetti – when I see the open-top buses in the center full of tourists! Until 2010, no one came to Genoa.” The director of Infectious Diseases of San Martino sees a single specter, “the total blackout” after the opening of the investigation: «Toti, and Mayor Bucci who studied in the States, have woken up the Genoese in recent years, who have always tended to isolate themselves – he argues -. They changed this city and anyone who doesn’t recognize it really means they don’t want to see it.”
Toti the “good communicator”, Toti “the nice one”, says Vergassola, who one day showed up to talk to him about the beautiful guide he had just written (Liguria, land of groans and beauty), perhaps thinking of making a suitable launch of it. Evolved tourism, no more pizzerias, anchovies and wine in the middle of the paths. But the governor, beyond his plastic smiles, did not go.
Carlo Freccero, a great television writer and former member of the Rai board of directors, is from Savona and instead is at war with Toti: «Because he is with the rich, he doesn’t care about the poor – he attacks – he wants to make Palmaria a little Capri in front of his house and then he thinks of placing the LNG terminal in front of Savona, also polluting Vado and that enchanting Bergeggi. If he likes the LNG terminal so much, why doesn’t he place it in Portofino? The truth is that for him there have always been greener gardens than others.”
«I remain a guarantor – he concludes Dario Vergassola, who is also very sensitive and fighting for the future of Isola Palmaria -. But the important thing, however the investigation goes, is that everything is clarified quickly. Because Liguria with its problems cannot wait, summer is upon us, tourists will arrive, I am now 67 years old, I also want to know what will become of the Felettino hospital near my home.”
