The book, co-written by Marino Collacciani and Marina Ripa di Meana, ‘Ora ti curo io’, will be presented on 24 September (6.30 pm) at Palazzo Chigi di Formello, which returns to overwhelming relevance even against the backdrop of the referendum on legal euthanasia. The lawyer Nino Marazzita, the countess Patrizia de Blanck, the fashion historian Silvana Pascale Augero, the psychotherapist Paola Notargiovanni, former psychologist manager at the Sant’Andrea Hospital, will be at the speakers’ table. Theater actor Gianluigi Augero will read some significant passages from the book
“When we are well we take life for granted. Instead, when our strength diminishes slowly, enjoy the privileges of the day, the beautiful things”. So Marina Ripa di Meana, who passed away on 5 January 2018 due to the incurable disease that had struck her 17 years earlier, told her closest friends. Emotions and intense unpublished insights into life are summarized in the book ‘Ora ti curo io – I took cancer by the horns’, written by Marino Collacciani (Cuzzolin Editore), a friend of Marina for 42 years and his first press office.
The story of a battle against cancer, between changes in therapy and suffering but always in the name of dignity and widespread irony
In the book, the story of a battle against cancer, between changes in therapy and suffering but always in the sign of dignity and widespread irony, with the courage of a true visionary, of a revolutionary forerunner on current issues. It is no coincidence that Marina Ripa di Meana, suffering and tired of fighting, fell asleep on 5 January 2018, making use of the assistance of the Luca Coscioni Association. The same one that had seen DJ Fabo as protagonist – in the world Fabiano Antoniani – led to his farewell to life in a Swiss clinic on February 27, 2017 by Marco Cappato.
The radical exponent risked 12 years in prison but was acquitted, while leaving a ‘vacatio legis’ open, not filled by the government despite the express request of the Supreme Court judges. The book came out posthumously, selling thousands of copies, but the original manuscript was not touched even in a comma by the author Marino Collacciani who today points out as that subtitle. ‘I got cancer by the horns’, is equivalent to a warning sign. That is, how a lethal disease can be managed in an extreme way, when life expectancy is reduced to a flicker and, in any case, destined to die out in a sea of suffering.
Mayor Formello, “that of the living will has been a topic on the table of jurisprudence for some time and it is right that the matter be regulated by a law that reconciles the needs of the patient”
A complex but easily usable picture that returns Marina to her real human aspect, the one that people have been able to see, appreciate and love. A book that three years later becomes extremely topical in the background of the referendum on legal euthanasia which has already reached and largely exceeded the necessary signatures (900 thousand compared to 500 thousand requests). A theme, that of cultural growth and equal opportunities that has never left the mayor of Formello, Gian Filippo Santi, brilliantly at the helm of the laborious town north of Rome with a large representation of squad quotas for four years.
“Those of the living will and legal euthanasia – said the mayor of Formello Gian Filippo Santi – have long been issues on the table of jurisprudence and it is right that the matter be regulated by a law that reconciles the needs of the patient, those of human conscience and of the Catholic faith. A knot that is difficult to solve, but not impossible to tackle, with the aim of reaching a solution that represents the real needs of the problem and frames it at least in terms of official reference. This would at least require adequate assistance. and better guidelines for families dealing with such cases. “
At the speakers’ table Nino Marazzita, Patrizia de Blanck, Gianluigi Augero who will read some passages from the book
The lawyer Nino Marazzita, one of the first bearers of a law on living will, the psychotherapist Paola Notargiovanni and two friends of Marina Ripa di Meana, will talk about it at the speakers’ table – during a debate moderated by Marino Collacciani. the countess Patrizia de Blanck who will remember the figure through a series of anecdotes, and the fashion historian, Silvana Pascale Augero, who will bring on stage three hats, a jacket and a fan designed by Marina Ripa di Meana and purchased by her for the its museum-collection. The theater actor Gianluigi Augero will read some passages from the book, after the institutional greetings of the mayor Gian Filippo Santi in the presence of the director of the Agro Veientano Museum in Formello, Iefke J. van Kampen.