Florence, 12 June 2024 – Exactly one year ago, the 12 June 2023, Silvio Berlusconi died. The four-time Prime Minister, founder of Fininvest and Mediaset, former president of Milan, and creator of Forza Italia. The sudden worsening of his health conditions which forced him to be admitted to the San Raffaele hospital again was fatal. He was 86 years old and had been fighting chronic myelomonocytic leukemia for some time, the latest in a long series of illnesses to which he had no intention of giving up. He was discharged from hospital on May 19, after 45 days spent treating pneumonia and kidney problems and continuing treatment for leukemia. He returned on June 9th but nothing suggested such a sudden collapse. He had worked right up until the end on the reorganization of the party in view of the European elections and had also spoken about it in the video sent to the Forza Italia convention in May. Italian politics stopped for his state funeral in the Cathedral of Milan, in the presence of many leaders who arrived from all over the world to pay homage to him. All the international media gave ample space to Berlusconi’s death, offering a long biographical reconstruction of the founder of Forza Italia, outlined in the various stages of his life, from his beginnings as an entrepreneur to television, from sport to politics.
“I had visited him the previous evening – recalled his daughter Marina -. I returned the next day, he was very tired and in pain. He was accompanied from the armchair to the table. He asked for a pen and paper, bowed his head and began to write. I sat down next to him and I watched him work. At a certain point he stopped, looked up, stared into my eyes and said something that I will carry with me until my last moment: “You see, Marina, life is like this: come, do it. do it, do it… and then you’ll go”. Today the family will reunite in Arcore for a mass in memory of the Knight and a lunch together. A mass in the chapel of Villa San Martino in Arcore: it will be celebrated today, strictly private, the first year after the death of Silvio Berlusconi. According to what he learned, the entire family was present, all five children, as well as his brother Paolo, Marta Fascina and his closest friends, his partner from school , Gianni Letta, Adriano Galliani, the CEO of Fininvest Danilo Pellegrino, who will then stay for lunch in the historic residence of the former Prime Minister. In the late afternoon, meanwhile, Pier Silvio Berlusconi, as we learn, will bring together all the employees and collaborators of the Mediaset Group in the historic headquarters of Cologno Monzese to remember the founder of the Company. Connections are also planned with the Rome and Mediaset Espana offices in Madrid. In prime time, Mediaset will then remember Silvio Berlusconi by broadcasting in prime time on Canale 5 “Dear President, one year later”, a documentary by Toni Capuozzo directed by Roberto Burchielli. According to what we learn from sources close to the family, their children Marina, Pier Silvio, Eleonora, Barbara, Luigi, their brother Paolo Berlusconi and his latest partner Marta Fascina should be present. On the political front, however, Forza Italia will remember the founding leader in the Chamber, with speeches from the Italian parliamentarians, while the secretary Antonio Tajani had already announced the convocation of the party secretariat to celebrate the anniversary of the president’s death.
And right up Marta Fascina The gossip spotlight has been on lately. According to some rumors, Berlusconi’s children would like that left the villa in September, intending to regain possession of the Arcore residence. But it is Fascina herself who denies it: “It is false news that comes from non-existent and unreliable sources”. Born today Sandro Penna born on 12 June 1906 in Perugia. He was one of the greatest Italian poets of the twentieth century. Among his famous verses handed down to history, the one that goes like this is very famous: “Happy is he who is different, because he is different. But woe to those who are different, since they are common.”
