“Daddy, we imagine you in Heaven organizing a grande talk show. You are now by the hand of Sordi and Gassman. You leave us an important legacy, the humility. You never expected such a great show of affection. You would have said: do you realize? All this for me»: le moving words of his daughter Camilla, followed by the reading of Prayer of the Artists by Gerry Scotti, they closed the funeral Of Maurice Costanzoyesterday in the church of the Artists in Piazza del Popolo in Rome.
A already crowded square two hours before the start of the funeral. Crowd outside, behind the barriers and with giant screens. And crowd in, with many familiar faces of television, entertainment, entrepreneurship, many forced to remain standing, by the Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino to Amadeus. Early start of a quarter of an hour on the scheduled time (3 pm), so much so that the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri, with tricolor band, arrives late. The coffin enters the church at 2.27 pm, welcomed by an applause lasting four minutes and sacred songs performed live. Following the family of the anchorman – Maria De Filippi, the three children, the grandchildren – who occupies the front rows.
A celebrate the funeral is don Walter Insero, rector of the basilica: «I met Maurizio two years ago, I thought I was in front of a priest-eater and instead I discovered a welcoming person it is lovely. The first thing he asked me was: are you a priest, right? ». The priest then focused on the many different aspects of the professional and human Costanzo, including love for all animals: «The adored cat Filippo, Maurizio was happy when he jumped on his office table». His non-belief is also remembered: “He wasn’t a believer in the strict sense – recalled Don Insero – but he was very respectful. He got closer and closer to Christian values and he always had in mind the question he also asked his guests: what’s around the corner?».
To listen to his words friends e the colleagues of a lifetime. Next to De Filippi (his is a crown of only red roses, to the left of the altar, with only «Maria» written) and the adopted child of the couple, Gabriele, is sitting the CEO of Mediaset Pier Silvio Berlusconi, whose crown of white roses is placed in the first chapel on the right with the phrase “A hug”. “A person who will stay there for always in the hearthe said as he entered the church, addressing the television cameras, slapping his chest.
The emotion is visible everywhere, not only among the closest relatives, the son Saverio with his partner Alba Rohrwacher, his sister Camilla, the four grandchildren of Costanzo. Standing and among the benches hundreds of familiar faces which shortly thereafter, outside the church, will unleash the selfie hunt: there are Mara Venier, Paolo Bonolis, Vittorio Sgarbi, Fedele Confalonieri, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Emanuele Filiberto, the CEO of Rai Carlo Fuortes, Luciana Littizzetto, Giorgio Panariello, Christian De Sica, Carlo Conti, Giancarlo Giannini, Valeria Marini, Simona Ventura, Lorella Cuccarini, Sabrina Ferilli, Fiorella Mannoia, Ultimo, Daniele Silvestri, Alex Britti, Enrico Brignano, Cristina Parodi and Giorgio Gori, Massimo Lopez, Tullio Solenghi… While outside the notes sound of the Costanzo Show...
