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He left the night he turned 80 and the wishes of all of Italy still resonated. Surprising until the end Gigi Proietti closed his eyes the same day of his birth, the November 2 (“A date that is what it is”, he always joked), like his beloved Shakespeare who came into the world on April 23, 1564 and died on April 23, 1616. It was not the COVID-19 but sick heart to take away the great Roman actor who for a few days had been secretly admitted to the Villa Margherita clinic, where his conditions had suddenly worsened. Already in 2010, due to a severe tachycardia, Gigi was rushed to Villa San Pietro. This time he had recovered but for some time his health was no longer very strong: diabetic, who suffered from kidney failure, the actor had to undergo dialysis to live despite the fact that neither he nor his family had ever disclosed this circumstance.
Gigi Proietti, the radiologist: «Before the CT scan he told me ‘Je la fare?’. He had severe heart disease “
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The family
And it was his family of strong and very faithful women who remained close to him until the end: his partner Sagitta Alter, a former Swedish tour guide known for 58 years who never formally married but more wife than real wife, and their daughters. Susanna, a 42-year-old set designer and costume designer, and Carlotta, 37, a singer and actress like her father. Talented acrobatic actor, director, broadcaster, singer, cultural patron, a Roman deeply imbued with the culture and moods of the capital, Proietti was a popular artist but possessed a deep intellectual foundation. He was a transversal character loved by everyone, young and old, townspeople and intellectuals who recognized each other in his irony, laughed at his jokes, admired his incredible stage skills. It is his civic commitment that led him to give so much to the cultural life of his city by creating an acting school, directing theaters and founding the Globe Theater within Villa Borghese. “He was one of us, while I was doing the computed tomography he found the strength to joke,” said the radiologist from Villa Margherita yesterday. “I am one of you who has had different encounters,” the actor explained to the Rebibbia inmates with whom he had lunch in 2015.
Hug
Yesterday the tributes took place all over Italy like a great collective hug: from the flashmob that, starting from a social group in Montesacro, at 8:00 p.m. brought thousands of people to the balconies to applaud Gigi and sing her stories, to the explosions of the The actor appeared in the Colosseum, in the Palazzo Senatorio de Campidoglio, on the facade of the Rai in Viale Mazzini while the Roman taxi drivers displayed in the back window the photo of Proietti that says “Who does not know how to laugh makes me suspect”. Mayor Virginia Raggi, “with her heart swollen with pain and sadness” announced the mourning of the city for next Thursday, the day of the funeral that will probably be held in Piazza del Popolo. Meanwhile, the emotional reactions of colleagues, friends and institutions have been acclaimed. President Sergio Mattarella spoke of “great pain” over the death of the actor, “a teacher of generations of actors, a lucid and passionate intellectual.”
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, the Presidents of the two branches of Parliament, Elisabetta Casellati and Roberto Fico, the EU Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, the President of the Region Nicola Zingaretti also expressed their condolences. Social networks welcomed the emotion of countless characters from entertainment, culture, sport: among others, Renato Zero, Francesco Totti, Francesco Rutelli, Pippo Baudo, Maurizio Costanzo, Matteo Garrone, Rosario and Giuseppe Fiorello, Vincenzo Salemme, Anna Foglietta, Paola Cortellesi, Vittorio Sgarbi, Vasco Rossi while Pierfrancesco Favino dedicated a poem in Roman dialect to Gigi. Edoardo Leo, who is completing a documentary on Proietti, posted: “A man like you can only clap until his hands peel off.” But it will not only be the memory to keep the actor’s image alive: his new film I am Santa Claus directed by Edoardo Falcone will be released at Christmas and Rizzoli will posthumously publish the book on which Gigi had been working for a long time.
With #GigiProietti not only is one of the faces most loved by the public, but also an extraordinary protagonist of our culture. Today we are left with a showmanship genius who has managed to entertain and excite millions of Italians. His disappearance afflicts the entire country. pic.twitter.com/i5brGLNqW4
– Giuseppe Conte (@GiuseppeConteIT) November 2, 2020
Gigi Proietti, the radiologist: “Before the CT scan he told me” Je la fa? “It was a serious heart disease.”
Gigi Proietti died at 80 leaving an immense void next to him. Despite having been hospitalized for days, he had not lost the humor that has always distinguished him at the Roman clinic in Villa Margherita. Fabrizio Lucherini is a radiologist at the clinic: “When I had the CT scan a few days ago, he was ironic about his condition:” How am I?
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