The long farewell to Maurizio Costanzo, there is Maria De Filippi with her son

Hundreds of people are parading to the funeral home in the hall of the Protomoteca in the Campidoglio for a last farewell to Maurizio Costanzo, who passed away yesterday at the age of 84.

Maria De Filippi also arrived at the funeral home.

Valerio Mastrandrea, Mara Venier, Pierluigi Diaco, Fiorello, Paola Barale are some of the well-known personalities who have come to pay homage to Costanzo.

Mastrandrea placed a white rose on the coffin.

The wife has arrived, passing through a side entrance.

With her, the adopted son of the couple, Gabriele, in tears.

Together they put themselves in the front row of seats for relatives and friends and the presenter, in a suit and black glasses, continues to talk to her son to console him, also watching the flow of people who arrive as a tribute to her husband. 

Even the premier

at the funeral home.

To welcome her the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri and Maria De Filippi with her son Gabriele. 

Costanzo "leaves us the legacy of a great journalism capable of communicating with everyone and of understanding that the human dimension of things is very important. He was a man with his own ideas but capable of understanding everyone and he was very interested in the human character of people", Meloni said as he left the funeral home. 

 "There aren't many capable of doing what he did in recent years - he added -. He was also a great discoverer of talents, a person who liked to try to understand even what someone who didn't yet have great responsibilities could say" .

The Prime Minister explains "that I am linked to him by very ancient memories, I cannot say that I am a talent that he discovered but my very first television appearances were on the Maurizio Costanzo Show, I was more or less 17 years old. He is a person who went through our history who had his own clear point of view on the events, we lose a great journalist".  

Maurizio Costanzo "leaves us the legacy of a great journalism capable of communicating with everyone and understanding that the human dimension of things is very important. He was a man with his own ideas but capable of understanding everyone and he was very interested in the human character people," the premier said.

"There aren't very many capable of doing what he did in recent years - she added -. He was also a great discoverer of talents, a person who liked to try to understand even what those who didn't yet have great responsibilities could say ".

Giorgia Meloni explains "that I am linked to him by very ancient memories, I cannot say that I am a talent that he discovered but my very first television appearances were on the Maurizio Costanzo Show, I was more or less 17 years old.  

"Rarely have I seen a tribute that was a plebiscite. It is as if young and old in this country had all bowed down in front of Maurizio Costanzo".

Gianni Letta said it, as he left Maurizio Costanzo's funeral home where he arrived together with his son Giampaolo, CEO of Medusa.

"I have a beautiful, positive memory of him - he added - he reaped all the important things he sowed in life".

Before others, "he understood the power of TV, he made it his own and managed it well, with intelligence and humanity like an enlightened ruler. Maurizio Costanzo is television". 

This morning the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri and two of the journalist's children, the director Saverio Costanzo and the screenwriter Camilla Costanzo, were present at the arrival of the coffin in the Campidoglio.

Among the first to arrive Francesco Rutelli with his wife Barbara Palombelli and Emanuela Aureli.

Four vases of white roses were brought in with the coffin.

At the back of the room, between the crowns that of Rome Capital and the Lazio Region. 

"When Tg2 Post was born, I telephoned him to get his impressions and he gave them to me, together with some very affectionate and friendly advice, I greatly appreciated him. He was a master of television, I think he left a mark important in journalism and in Italian TV. This is also why we have decided in agreement with Palazzo Chigi to proclaim the solemn funeral".

said as

he left the funeral home.

The minister also recalled that he had become friends with the journalist years earlier, while he was writing the biography of Giuseppe Prezzolini.

The Promoteca room will remain open today until 18 and will reopen tomorrow at 10. The solemn funeral will be held on Monday in the Church of the Artists in Piazza del Popolo in Rome.

"There is a moving tribute from Roman men and women to a giant of television, culture and journalism like Maurizio Costanzo, who was also a man of extraordinary professionalism and humanity. A very sweet and nice person, an unrivaled professional".

The mayor of Rome

says it as he leaves the funeral home for Maurizio Costanzo in the Campidoglio.

"The widespread reaction in the city proves how much he is a person to whom we all owe a lot and to whom Rome will adequately pay homage - he adds -. Now there is a collective embrace from Rome for him, for his family and those who have wished well".

"He has helped millions of Italians to understand and explore life. In his witty, sober, curious way, to understand what's around the corner" said

as he left the funeral home for Maurizio Costanzo From 10: 30, the uninterrupted flow of people, belonging to all ages began.

Among the well-known faces who have arrived so far, also Gianni Ippoliti, Mara Venier, Pierluigi Diaco, who burst into tears, Rudy Zerbi, Ermete Realacci and Valerio Mastandrea, who entered with a rose in his hand.

"I learned life and humanity from him. One thing we always said to each other was that we met late. We tried to come up with ideas for the city that we both love. I discovered a person of very profound humanity, capable of speaking of things that are very deep and very light at the same time, to laugh and get excited".

This was stated by the former mayor of Rome

at the exit of the morgue for Maurizio Costanzo in the hall of the Protomoteca in the Campidoglio.