Rivera, the Philoctetes. The displeasure of the MEF director abandoned “by his friend” Giorgetti

Two months spent on trial. The noble origins, the passion for marathons, the long journey that led Alessandro Rivera to become director general of the Treasury until his fall

In two months he was defined as “powerful”, “irreplaceable”, “the man who speaks to international markets”, a “head to be cut off”. From now Alessandro Rivera he is the former director general of the Treasury. He became more famous than the footballer Gianni and suffered for it (“a mythology has been built around my figure”). When Giancarlo Giorgetti summoned him to announce his replacement with Riccardo Barbieri, they say that Rivera remained silent and thought: “They have the right to do it but they could have spared me the dripping”. He is abandoned by his minister just as the Greeks had abandoned Philoctetes in Lemnos and whom Sophocles had recite: “What does it matter or say. This is not the time for long speeches”. It is “the sickened one”.