#Italy: Farewell to the much beloved Silvio Berlusconi at the Milan Cathedral. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
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🗓️ 17 June 2023
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#Italy: Farewell to the much beloved Silvio Berlusconi at the Milan Cathedral. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/world/berlusconi-trump.html
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| 0:36.0 | Soviol Balestoni passes away born 29 September 1936, died 12 June 2023, buried with great grief and ceremony and celebration. |
| 0:50.0 | In Milan, the celebration in the Milan Cathedral, the attention of all of Italy, of all of Europe. |
| 0:56.0 | Because not only a successful politician, Prime Minister of Italy, also a successful media baron. |
| 1:03.0 | Also, I learned from my colleague and friend Lorenzo Fiori of the Anzalda Foundation, a successful sports owner. |
| 1:13.0 | Lorenzo, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:16.0 | The celebration in the cathedral was sad, but it was also a remembrance of the significance of Balestoni to all aspects of Italian. |
| 1:25.0 | We'll speak of AC Milan, oh, soon enough. |
| 1:30.0 | But first I wanted to know how Italy is remembering him. |
| 1:34.0 | What is significant to all the Italians in these days of mourning? Good evening to you. |
| 1:40.0 | Good evening, John. Good evening, told the radio listener. |
| 1:43.0 | Well, I can tell you that there are many messages that I need to deliver to the radio listener tonight about Balestoni and the funeral that Balestoni had. |
| 1:53.0 | You know that the Italian government decided to declare the day of the funeral a more initial mourning day, which is a pretty unusual considering that normal is given to people that have had the role when they died in the in the government role. |
| 2:16.0 | Let's say in the institution, but a part that let me tell you that there were two and a moment of this ceremony, the moment inside the cathedral with two and two thousand people attending the funeral, starting from the president of the Italian Republic and all these friends from politics to the people working in his empire of commercial TV and also a mini former player of the city. |
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