The house of Emma Bonino is near Campo de ‘Fiori. Small and happy and proud as she, top floor, large terrace full of potted plants, at this time the favorite of Emma is the white-flowered clematis: “will bloom in the spring, we hope to be the right ones.” In truth there are already two sprouting timid, deceived by the off-season warmth. Large windows on the Chancellery and the dome of St. Peter. “It is the only project” private “that I was able to accomplish in life, this house. It was the home side’s keeper plus a wash. I bought it in 2011, with the money prestatimi from my sister, all returned by now. Just I saw it I said, this is where I want to grow old. ”
On the coffee table album collects the before and after, the pairs of photographs paired tell its restructuring step by step and step by step his eyes light up as he describes it. His mind is a mess of things and enlightened projects, but is also a Ambaradan Savoy, behind every passion is a rigorous study, a spirit of application of Mazzini, the sense of duty first of all that driving even now in the battle against the disease. The “beast”, as she calls it. Or the “asshole”.
He says: “I’m not afraid, I am optimistic. I had a great life. The family affections, radical politics, friendships, great pain, the loneliness. The important thing is to know how to feel, to live, accept and govern emotions, never become indifferent to what we crosses or touches us. ” Wearing a blue turban and green: “We bald transition we always cold even in the house, even in the hat.” If the fact is she turban, a scarf knotted at the nape of cotton with a technique learned by African women: “I do not remember if in Senegal or Mali, during the campaign against female genital mutilation together with Khady Koita, wonderful woman and wonderful friend. ” He prepared a dinner of vegetable soup with crusty bread, veal with tuna sauce and boiled eggs, mozzarella, chicory and kisses Cherasco.
How are you, Emma?
“Well. I bear chemotherapy without significant inconvenience. They are disciplined, you should see what are rigorous. I follow carefully the provisions of the doctors, professors Claudio Santini and Enrico Cortesi. Eat three times a day, avoid meat and sweets, limit the cheese. I do Nordic breakfast or should I say Icelandic: bread, butter, tuna and capers and a cup of broth, I miss only the ‘ herring. I was used to a latte and three cookies, now I can only eat salty. I can not feel the taste. The order of the doctors is not to lose weight. I should be back in as I was before I met radicals, country lass blonde 65 pounds. And then sleep, not to travel … “.
Do not smoke.
“on cigarettes I got an exception. Green light (with a sigh) even by my friend Umberto Veronesi. One every two hours, up to ten per day. In fact, I warn you that it is time, there touches a “. (He lights a Muratti, the penultimate of the package).
On January 12, live on Radio Radicale, made a brave outing. He said: I am not my cancer and you’re not even your illness, we think that we are people who face a challenge that has happened. It is aimed at a patrol of fighters. How difficult was it to say those words?
“It cost me think of them, put them in a row one after the other, show my weakness intimate. I am a Piedmont also paid on the misfortunes, always try to live arguing that the personal is political, but I also believe that the private not public. It may seem like a tongue twister but I hope you understand. I was excited, like I had to announce a divorce. I that I never married, despite having had two great loves, because they are refractory to coexistence, in the discipline at which time the disease forced me. Or maybe, think about it, I was a virtuous for lack of temptation. In the end have made that confession helped me. Many sufferers have written me Thanks, helped me to o. Having the knowledge that we are not our evil, that we are nothing, that we must strive to continue to be the exact same people as before is our hope and our secular faith. I know I have to take care of this asshole and just. Me or him, we’ll see who the check. But I’m not sure on the internet to look for what is the small cell, or if I should take the aloe or some sort of miraculous berry … “.
In those days the polls the newspapers they placed at the top for the election to the Quirinale and she goes on the radio to say I have cancer of the left lung. He felt the need to get out of the fray?
“is that since ’99 I no longer think the Quirinale. Every time the game of the Hill is hilarious and opaque, all aspirants should be careful not to say so, and meanwhile they move more or less secretly to secure any kind of support. I was a candidate in the sunlight, sure I can do without having to feel ashamed as a thief. I was sixteen votes. This time, thanks to the Socialists twenty two … Throughout my political career, I felt repeat several times: Emma, you are a beloved figure in this country, one day or the other will make a monument! I would rather be loved less and rated more. “
Sergio Mattarella will be a good president of the Republic?
” It was when I was a minister in Brussels, so I have very little crossover. It has a very strong legal structure, qualities that will be critical to the restoration and protection of the right in our country and the rule of law that is the only possible basis of democratic coexistence. “
British Labour Valerie Amos, UN deputy secretary for humanitarian aid will leave office in March. The Italian government wanted to propose to Ban Ki-moon his candidacy. She had to surrender to the reality principle and say no. It was a great sorrow?
“Yes, it was a painful renunciation. But I could not do otherwise because I know only in April or May, what will become of me. It was something to which I kept really because humanitarian aid, save lives, not realpolitik so fashionable, but they are worth and how can we tell people without this? “.
His challenge is also filled with the future. As it is doing?
“With the agenda of initiatives and appointments. On March 8, the day of my sixty-seventh birthday, I will be in Tunis where we will bring on stage the play of Serena Dandini Injuries to death. Will debut in an Arab country, with Italian actresses and actresses Tunisian. After I’d Tunis Morocco. After a month I will still swimming in Salento, for the therapy of recovery of the lung. From June 29 to July 10, I go to Milan for Women for Expo, event protagonism female wanted for years, since the candidature of Milan won with the Prodi government and Letizia Moratti, who I take care with Marta Dassù, the Foreign Ministry and an extraordinary network of women from around the world. “
The global jihad terrorism, massacres of migrants, the expansionist ambitions of Putin, the breakup of Greece, the populist tendencies and racist. The idea of ‘Europe, which she loved so much, flounders. Why?
“You fear the crisis final draft European federalist. From 2008 onwards the measures and economic policies of EU countries, except for the efforts of Dragons, aimed to re-nationalization of the interest. And after Solana, Europe has completely abandoned its common foreign policy back to a practice Intergovernmental evident for some time, to the revival of the nation states and nationalism, which is not a good idea, given our recent history. The problem is not because the Mogherini was not in Minsk to negotiation on the Russia-Ukraine crisis, if anything, because there was Renzi. “
What Italy should do and not do?
“We need a policy towards the Islamic world Muslim enlarged Mediterranean that nobody does and for which Italy should in my view take on roles of responsibility not only in key anti-terrorist or anti-immigration, but across the board. We are available to take charges or are we still leaves us alone to Europe or even delete Mare Nostrum because it costs € 9 million? These are things that you can not even hear … The effective leader is one of Europe Angela Merkel, thank goodness there her and that you try, but then you decide to elect or president of the United States of Europe, and I would vote as well, or we take note that the objective of the European political union is least when frozen, and if they pull the consequences at the level of the country. “
Among the bookshelves are two photographs of Emma Bonino and Marco Pannella. They hug and laugh. One, in black and white, it’s 1977, the age of the enthusiasm and the battles won or that you were going to win. The other is 1999, the year 9 percent to Bonino List, the biggest hit of the radicals. Emma says: “I had the privilege of having two extraordinary families, each in his own way. My parents. Sunday my sister, my brother John, my sister in law and my three grandchildren and great-grandchildren with their families. And the house of the radicals. With Mark’s relationship has always been beautiful and complex. He is French-speaking and Latin scholar, I Anglo him just a slogan, I want to understand titles and subtitles, I am neat and precise as my desk, he is her desk, is like eating or not eating, but Marco is undoubtedly a coupon insurance against mediocrity. When I said that I had a tumor responded: “Oh, I’ve got two”. “
We ask many encouragements received by colleagues in the policy.” A lot of text messages, many phone calls. I replied to all: thank you, now you see to find a way to make a law for the end of life that we avoid the humiliation of going to Switzerland to live free until the end, which is the campaign slogan of the Luca Coscioni . That’s right, from the body of the sick to the heart of politics. Well, no reply, as if I had exterminated all with a Colt 45 or DDT. “
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