The applause of the Sanità district in Naples greeted the coffin of Liliana de Curtis who arrived from Rome to the church of Santa Maria ai Vergini where the funeral of Totò's daughter who died on Friday in the capital at the age of 89 after a long illness takes place.
Despite the hot morning, about a hundred people gathered in front of the church.
'' A great pride, my mother leaves me a great testimony ", the comment of her daughter Elena Anticoli de Curtis who took the baton at the head of the Foundation dedicated to Totò and the battle for the construction of a museum.
For the other son, Antonello Buffardi de Curtis "the question of the Totò museum - he commented bitterly - is now a joke, but we want to believe in miracles. '' Then he recalled the great bond between Totò and his only daughter." It was the great love of his life and so also for Liliana '".
The actor friend Enzo Decaro, who collaborated with Liliana, underlines" the importance of the study of Antonio de Curtis as a poet and philosopher. he cared a lot. "In the small crowd the actor Giacomo Rizzo, the deputy mayor Mia Filippone ('' the museum is indispensable and necessary '', he said). The owner of the nearby house where Totò was born,Giuseppe de Chiara hopes in the new municipal administration to combat the deterioration of the facade of the building and beyond.
'' We have been abandoned.
a link between home and museum would be nice '.
Liliana de Curtis will be buried tomorrow in the Pianto cemetery in Poggioreale and she will rest "in the family chapel next to Totò.
