Stefano Folli of Repubblica is right: for Berlusconi national mourning "a bit excessive, even surreal"

Silvio Berlusconi, who was an absolute if controversial protagonist of the Second Republic, i state funeral, which are celebrated today in Cathedral in Milan in the presence of the President Mattarella, are more than justified. But the proclamation of the National mourning with the suspension of the work of Parliament leaves many perplexed and risks challenging, as Berlusconi himself did throughout his political adventure, the sense of proportion, as he wisely warns on "the Republic” today's columnist Stefano Folli, according to which the "national mourning sounds a bit excessive and even surreal". Folli explains: “The nation wears mourning, with flags at half-mast, when a symbol of national unity disappears, first of all a former President of the Republic, or perhaps the Pope or even the head of a foreign State who has had privileged relations with Italy. Up to, in some rare cases, a civilian or sports hero”. But "Berlusconi did not belong to any of these categories" and the proclamation of national mourning - needless to hide it - clashes. And quite a lot. Perhaps the right thinks it can take advantage of it by presenting a political leader of undisputed ability and great popular consensus as a hero of the country, but who was intrinsically divisive and was not by chance the inventor of the political bipolarity of the Second Republic. "But be careful not to overdo it" warns Folli because "obtaining the opposite effect" to the desired one "takes a moment". Folli is absolutely right: Up for him.