Piero Angela, the last farewell to the Capitol

Last farewell today to Piero Angela the journalist and science popularizer who died on Saturday at the age of 93 years. The funeral parlor in the Campidoglio in the Protomoteca room, the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri was among the first to arrive. In the front row the journalist’s wife, Margherita Pastore, their children Alberto and Christine, the CEO of Rai Carlo Fuortes and the president of Rai Marinella Soldi. Among those present was the director of Tg1 Monica Maggioni. Hundreds of people lined up in Piazza del Campidoglio to pay tribute to the scientific popularizer (VIDEO).

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“Thanks to whoever is here to who is out and who is at home, not This speech is easy. I think that the people we love should never leave us but it happens “, the words of Alberto Angela who adds:” The thing that struck us is the return of messages, articles on social networks are full of pain not suffering but love, a feeling. Feeling is something that remains. The last teaching did it to me by example, it taught me not to be afraid of death. He went through this last period with his feet on the ground, he had a rational, scientific approach to life. It was important for him to have a full life, to love life. From Turin he seemed reserved but inside he had a fire. He will continue to live in all the people who seek to unite, to savor life. The legacy he leaves you is of attitude towards life. He told us ‘Do your part’, I too will try to do mine. ”

“I had the distinct sensation of having Leonardo da Vinci at home because I lived him as a son, as a colleague, as a normal person who found himself in front of an eclectic mind, a person capable of giving always the right answer, in any sector, from industrial to research “says Alberto Angela. “He had a capacity for synthesis, for analysis and for finding the right answer in a calm way that then made everyone agree. He loved an aphorism by Leonardo da Vinci: ‘ As a well-spent day gives you happy sleep, so a life well used gives you a happy death ‘. I think he has interpreted it to the end “.

“ For him it was important to have a full life . And it is a suggestion that he gave to all of us: ‘Do like me, it will be easier to get to the end.’ It is a teaching – highlights Alberto Angela – to love life, to cultivate all passions. that he did: even if as a Turin he seemed very reserved, there was a fire inside, the fire of knowledge. He made transmissions of all kinds, from economics to medicine. And he went through this last period with incredible serenity, I’ve never seen him in despair or sadness or pain “.

” A few years ago there were 50 years of the moon landing and I – Alberto Angela tells us – I insisted that we do something together and we made that episode. . Once he even pulled out photos. There was Armstrong. He had a q amount of experience. A filled life. This is very important. And it was one of the reasons why he left satisfied, like when he lifts us from a table after a beautiful dinner with his friends. He went through this last period with a rationality, down to earth as if it were an Apollo mission. When he learned that his time had come for him, he did a rough calculation of the time he would have left and did all the shows that are airing now of Superquark, another cycle. He also made a jazz record, going to record and going back. He had incredible strength. He made speeches to family members and then to you. After 24 hours he is gone. This serenity was possible because he had a rational, scientific approach but also full of life and love “.

And the uninterrupted flow of people on the Capitoline stairways to reach the hall of the Protomoteca. The common people, Roman citizens and also many tourists, paused for a few moments in front of the coffin and greeted Alberto Angela moved: the son, from the opening of the funeral home and even after the secular funeral rite celebrated in the late morning, has always been standing next to the coffin of Piero Angela and thanked one by one all the people who have given him condolences.

The coffin has left the hall of the Protomoteca, where the funeral parlor was set up and the secular funeral rite was celebrated, destined for the Roman cemetery of Prima Porta, where it will remain in storage for the time necessary for the cremation procedures. The secular merrymaking ‘marked the day, with many people lined up neatly, but without queues, to then parade in front of Piero Angela’s coffin and put their signature and a word of esteem or personal remembrance on the book of honor.

GUALTIERI – “Piero Angela he was an extraordinary personality of Italian culture and journalism, he made science known and loved by millions and millions of Italians who today remember him with affection, pain, mourning “said the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri. “But there is also an extraordinary feeling of gratitude for a beautiful person who was able to combine rationality, trust in science, humanity and the gentle and gentle ability to explain to everyone the importance of science but also the beauty of this city. We will miss it and Rome will remember it. ” “A Turin but also a Roman by adoption, a person who from Rome spoke to all of Italy. In these days I am seeing that the Romans feel a lot of affection for Piero Angela, he was something more than a journalist and a popularizer, a great intellectual “.

LETTA – “To the funeral parlor in the Campidoglio to pay homage to Piero Angela. I think it would be nice if many Italian schools bear his name in the future” tweets the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta. “I still have in mind that whole day we spent with the students in Cesenatico a few years ago. A moment in which I realized how magnetic he was in attracting the curiosity of the boys, in making them dream and in pushing them to imagine their future in world of science “, recalled Letta as he left the funeral parlor in the Capitol. “I have in mind the look above all of those girls whom he encouraged by saying ‘It is not possible for a world to be so masculine, you have to break through and the system must give you the chances’. Italy loses one of its most eclectic, extraordinary personalities, appreciated and loved. I would be very pleased if from tomorrow many technical institutes, high schools, high schools were called institute, high school or high school ‘Piero Angela’ “, concluded the leader of the Democratic Party.

RENZO ARBORE – “We played many times together, it was a unique person “said Renzo Arbore. “Always a brilliant and instructive conversation, a great gentleman. I have a wonderful memory of Piero Angela”.

RABBI DI SEGNI – “So much gratitude and a truly affectionate memory for all his family” is expressed by Riccardo Di Segni, chief rabbi of Rome, after the homage to Piero Angela and condolences to his son Alberto, in the hall of the Protomoteca in the Campidoglio, where the journalist’s funeral home has been set up.

“The reason why I am here, also representing the Jewish community, is twofold – Di Segni stresses – First of all, the esteem and gratitude for a great professional in communication and specifically in scientific dissemination, to which we are traditionally very attached. And then, the memory of his family “.

In fact, the chief rabbi of Rome remembers that” his father , during the war, he directed what was then defined as mental hospitals; and he took advantage of his role and that situation to hide and save numerous Jews from Nazi-Fascist persecution. is history, Piero Angela told it belatedly, with great sobriety, without bragging: a behavior that was part of his style … “, concludes Riccardo Di Segni, before leaving the Capitol.