(ANSA) - TOMBOLO, 27 NOV - An entire country, Tombolo, and the gotha of Italian finance met together for their last farewell to Ennio Doris, the visionary and good banker - countless testimonies of his generosity - who died Wednesday night at the age of of 81 years. Almost 5,000 people at his funeral, many remained in the area around the church, pursue the ceremony from the maxi screens, because the parish of Sant'Andrea was too small, and could only host family members and closest acquaintances. A notoriety also in the media was that of the founder of Mediolanum, whose face and good-natured expression everyone knew, through the bank's spots on TV. But on the day of the funeral it became clear that the banker Doris, Milanese by adoption, a friend of Silvio Berlusconi,at the head of an empire that counts 3,200 employees, he had always remained an inhabitant of Tombolo, a town of 8,000 souls in the upper Padua area, from where he had started by starting dazero.
Present in the church were his wife Lina, their children Massimo and Sara, their many grandchildren.
But to pay homage to "his friend Ennio" the big names in finance also arrived in the country of the upper Padua area.
Silvio Berlusconi, with his partner Marta Fascina, and his daughter Marina, Marco Tronchetti Provera, Alessandro Benetton, Alberto Nagel and Francesco Saverio Vinci, of Mediobanca, Matteo Marzotto.
The governor Luca Zaia was also present.
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