Renzi’s intervention on the Cutro massacre is a small masterpiece of oratory

The leader of Italia Viva took the chair and Parliament seemed to admire the style and ways of the past, of those familiar with democratic practice. Now the narrow-minded will understand why he is a well-paid lecturer

Parliamentary oratory has expired in screaming or limpness, but not for Renzi. Justly pleased, given that a job well done gives satisfaction even in emotional storms, with even body language that is not sincere, banality to spare, but exceptionally effective, the senator produced a small classic masterpiece on the tragedy of Steccato of Cutro and its substance, including politics. Since few still want to listen to him, Renzi has risen to the chair, and it’s not the first time. The lesson was nourishing, clear, not vague and indistinct as usual, but clear and distinct. The final blow, the evocation of Virgil and his shipwrecked founders of Rome, the mention of the Gold Medal Salvatore Todaro, who died before his occasional contradicter Karl Dönitz, without having to sign like the German admiral the unconditional surrender of the Reich to the Allies, who died after having claimed two thousand years of civilization in a fascist and nationalistic way for a rescue of enemies at sea: two high blows, in the midst of many low blows.