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| Berlusconi Seizes Italy’s Attention Even in Death | Berlusconi Seizes Italy’s Attention Even in Death |
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| Not even death could keep Silvio Berlusconi from center stage. | Not even death could keep Silvio Berlusconi from center stage. |
| The post-Berlusconi era was inevitable, but it arrived on Tuesday with a shock given the leader’s aura of plastic-parts immortality — and his own energetic insistence, well into his 80s, that he was as young as ever. | The post-Berlusconi era was inevitable, but it arrived on Tuesday with a shock given the leader’s aura of plastic-parts immortality — and his own energetic insistence, well into his 80s, that he was as young as ever. |
| And Mr. Berlusconi, who loomed over Italian politics as prime minister and power broker for decades, still dominated the country a day after his death on Monday at 86. Mourners brought flowers to his palatial villa. His critics debated whether he had transformed Italy for good or ill. His most ardent admirers declared that he was foremost in their thoughts and prayers. | And Mr. Berlusconi, who loomed over Italian politics as prime minister and power broker for decades, still dominated the country a day after his death on Monday at 86. Mourners brought flowers to his palatial villa. His critics debated whether he had transformed Italy for good or ill. His most ardent admirers declared that he was foremost in their thoughts and prayers. |
| “He was a man who had great intuition, and the courage to follow those intuitions,” Deborah Bergamini, a lawmaker with Forza Italia, Mr. Berlusconi’s party, said in an interview on the national broadcaster RAI. “I think this was his greatest charisma.” | “He was a man who had great intuition, and the courage to follow those intuitions,” Deborah Bergamini, a lawmaker with Forza Italia, Mr. Berlusconi’s party, said in an interview on the national broadcaster RAI. “I think this was his greatest charisma.” |
| Although Mr. Berlusconi’s family decided to hold a strictly private gathering for relatives and friends on Tuesday, the former leader’s gravitational pull brought cameras of news channels and websites to the elegant iron gates surrounding his villa in Arcore, near Milan. Mr. Berlusconi was taken to the villa, where he had lived since the 1970s, just hours after his death at the San Raffaele hospital in his hometown, Milan. | Although Mr. Berlusconi’s family decided to hold a strictly private gathering for relatives and friends on Tuesday, the former leader’s gravitational pull brought cameras of news channels and websites to the elegant iron gates surrounding his villa in Arcore, near Milan. Mr. Berlusconi was taken to the villa, where he had lived since the 1970s, just hours after his death at the San Raffaele hospital in his hometown, Milan. |
| Outside the gates, an improvised memorial of flowers, handwritten signs, and soccer team scarves and jerseys — A.C. Milan and A.C. Monza, the teams he owned formerly and at the time of his death — grew as the hours passed. Intermittent rain did not discourage his supporters from gathering along the road leading to the villa. |