With the elegance that only a king can have, Carlo filed with a smile and a joke was interrupted for a misunderstanding, when he had not yet finished his speech to the Careto. After he had mentioned “the legendary anti -mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone”, the parliamentarians stand up for a standing ovation that let the end of the speech presage, so much so that the end of the ceremony was announced.
But some passage was still missing, including the quotation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. So the king turned to the hosts – the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa and that of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana – and with a smile he said: “I have not yet finished”. The entire classroom applauded laughing.
