SI am deeply saddened by the passing of Elisabetta Cordanithe wife of Ferruccio de Bortoli. Someone will say: your business, your business. And no: it’s our business. The Corriere della Sera it’s a community. It is even more so since its contents travel across all platforms, involving a growing number of people.
Ferruccio de Bortoli found himself leading this community twice – two cycles of six years each. He did it with absolute dedication: the first to arrive in via Solferino, the last to leave; he cared about his relationship with his readers to the point that many had his cell phone, and even called him, to congratulate or complain.
They were two complex periods: the first above all due to the pressures of political power, the second due to the pressures of economic power, aggravated by poor administrative management remedied only by the current ownership.
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
The maintenance and relaunch of Courier in recent years they have been almost a prodigywhose merit is obviously divided – in different proportions and ways – among several people: one of these is undoubtedly Elisabetta Cordani.
I have met wives of important men who, I won’t say “they resented it”, but they had a distancing attitude. Elizabeth was the exact opposite. Always very kind to everyone, ironic, elegant, she was very attentive to the relationship with each of usshe had actually become friends with several colleagues.
Elisabetta Cordani and Ferruccio de Bortoli in a photo from 2017 (photo Getty Images).
His moral strength – confirmed by the way he faced the illness – and his style were the mirror of those of Ferruccio, and certainly contributed to supporting him and helping him (de Bortoli is a very sweet person, as everyone can see, but in short, when he got angry, he got angry).
This is also why his premature and cruel death is not only a loss for the entire community Courierbut it’s for all of us a reflection on the importance of marital loveon the extraordinary qualities of women, and on the duty of us men, sometimes dealing with exhausting rhythms and pressures, to still try to live up to them.
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