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2023-06-17 20:40:00, Blog Gianfranco D’Anna

The former prime minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi

Protagonist of his farewell, as only those who have played a leading role in the history of their country can be, the death of Silvio Berlusconi is in fact akin to a change of scene, jumping on the front pages of the media around the world , from actuality to history. His departure from life best fits the words of Leonardo Da Vinci:

"Yes, just as a well-spent day gives you a peaceful night's sleep, so a wisely spent life gives you a peaceful death."

A genius but undisciplined, with innate powers of seduction and an outstanding dialectic.

Silvio Berlusconi's favorite verb was to dribble, dodge and bypass obstacles to reach the predetermined goal in any case. The death of the 86-year-old Cavaliere del Lavoro, 4 times prime minister of Italy, the first tycoon to personify and benefit politically from the birth of private television broadcasting, leaves a long trail of successes, first economic and then political.

They have profoundly influenced the transformations in the archaic ideological system of political parties in Italy, which, preceding the arrival of the Internet, unfolded a whole catalog of innovations that were destined to revolutionize everything in Italy.

Eclectic and sharp, Silvio Berlusconi has excelled in every activity he has undertaken, from construction to wholesale, from insurance to the publishing sector, from television to advertising, from sports to politics, always displaying a fascinating and egotistical protagonist.

To his innate, versatile and visionary abilities, Berlusconi added the essential characteristic of pragmatism. Able to convince and pull everyone behind him, he maintained a flair for detail and perfection.

According to the American magazine "Forbes", by 2021 Berlusconi, the founder of an economic and television empire, had a personal fortune of 7.3 billion US dollars (6 billion euros). He was the sixth richest man in Italy and the 318th richest in the world.

Politically and historically, he leaves behind a complex, and in many ways controversial, legacy. The precise smell of the collapse of ideologies and the establishment of a new party,

Forza Italia, with which he debuted in the 1994 elections, achieved the necessary parliamentary majority and the leadership of the government, followed many shadows of suspicion, especially with representatives of the mafia, who, according to various prosecutors, had as liaison his friend Marcello Dell' Uterus.

As would be proven by the 7-year sentence for this case, which never materialized, but also for many lawsuits against Berlusconi for other administrative, fiscal and criminal matters.

Investigations and proceedings that almost always ended in acquittals, with the exception of the trial that in August 2013 imposed a final sentence of 4 years in prison (with 3 years forgiven by the 2006 amnesty) for tax fraud.

Rehabilitated in May 2018, Berlusconi was re-elected deputy in the European Parliament elections of 2019, while in 2022 he was elected Senator of the Republic. Until the last days of his life he followed the activity of the political majority supporting the first center-right government led by a woman prime minister, the leader of the Fratelli D'Italia party, Giorgia Meloni, of which the cavalier's Forza Italia is a very important part. important.

It is easy to foresee the shedding of "crocodile tears" by many of those who opposed him in every possible way, and who will now be quick to repent and even applaud his continued role as a leader who remains a reference to a liberal and non-populist centre-right, in Europe, and for a weighty figure on the international scene, a close friend of Vladimir Putin, but also of former US President George W. Bush.

In any case, no one will be able to deny that Silvio Berlusconi represented an innovative turning point in Italian politics. Certainly he was neither chaste, nor saint, but neither devil, and will remain a historical moment in Italian politics and in the history of post-war Italian television.

A historical milestone, showing a precise political and entrepreneurial continuity. A legacy that has already been identified in his daughter Marina, who, relying on Giorgia Meloni, will improve the political experience but also preserve the epochal image of Silvio Berlusconi in politics, while in the field of business it will multiply the unparalleled genius of the father of her, transforming Fininvest into a multinational company./ " Formiche.net " - Adapted and translated by CNA.al