The Italian Wife: a breath-taking and heartbreaking pre-WWII romance set in Italy

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The “Clean Hands” corruption inquiries that took out a generation of Italian politicians eventually provided the motivation for that move. Power, he reasoned, would not only protect himself from prosecutors but allow him to defend his businesses.

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Berlusconi raises the Champions League trophy aloft alongside AC Milan players after they beat Liverpool 2-1 in the 2007 finalMeanwhile, I became better able to communicate my emotions, understanding the moments when I needed to go beyond my comfort zone to make her feel loved. On our first anniversary as a couple, I brought out my best Italian to post a gushing statement about the impact she’d had on my life and how she’d made me a better person. It helped me to build my confidence.

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Friends creator reveals Matthew Perry was ‘happy and chipper’ in final conversation before tragic death at 54When a 17-year-old Moroccan nightclub dancer known as Ruby the Heartstealer, who had been arrested for a petty crime, told police she knew Berlusconi, the claim set in motion a chain of events that would bring about the mogul’s downfall. For every Italian that hated him for his monopolistic control of the media and abuse of power, there was another who admired his business acumen and was amused by his lowbrow larks. As the writer Curzio Malaparte wrote, Berlusconi’s qualities and defects “are the qualities and defects of all Italians”. Silvio Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who, despite scandals over his sex-fuelled parties and allegations of corruption, was Italy’s longest-serving prime minister, has died at the age of 86. Relationships are different, of course, but the same principles apply. Grand romantic gestures tend to be rare, and for me to look someone in the eye and tell them how I felt about them was always deeply uncomfortable. I used to simply hope my affection shone through with my actions rather than my words. My experience of true love has been magnified by cultural difference but there’s a universal lesson here.

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That said, I’d like to think I’ve adopted some of the Italian style in how I show love in our marriage. I’d agreed to go with her to a childhood friend’s wedding and all I could feel was a wave of panic. How do they know who I am? Why does it sound like I’m already a fixture? Isn’t there some kind of process to this? Born in 1936 in Milan to a bank clerk father and housewife mother, he attended a Catholic college, where he began a complicated relationship with the Church, which supported him until the mounting allegations of sleaze “superseded the limits of decency” in the view of at least one weekly Catholic newspaper. The former Italian prime minister with George W Bush, right, and first lady Laura Bush, on his arrival at Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch in Texas in 2003

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All my friends and family are so excited to meet you!’ That was my Italian then-girlfriend, Maggie, a couple of months into our relationship. Ironically, if Berlusconi had not interceded, claiming she was the niece of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian despot, the case might have ended there.

Italian Wife: a breath-taking and heartbreaking pre-WWII The Italian Wife: a breath-taking and heartbreaking pre-WWII

Perhaps the most surprising part of the Italian crisis is that Berlusconi has emerged as a selfless voice of reason Then, of course, I got down on one knee – much to the chagrin of my mother-in-law, who didn’t get the same gesture from Maggie’s dad! Maggie and I first met at university in London but it wasn’t until a chance encounter at Pisa airport a couple of years later – me travelling, her in her native land – that we got to see each other in a different context and went from classmates to something more.

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Maggie was far more outwardly affectionate. She would have no problem using terrifying words like ‘love’ and telling me, both in person and via text, how happy being together made her. In 1994, he took 21 per cent of the vote in the general election and found himself prime minister, beginning a two-decade domination of Italian politics through which he shamelessly advanced his own interests. However, the more time we spent together, the more obvious our different expectations of how to show love became. Understandably, when we moved from a young relationship to something more serious, she expected clearer demonstrations of how I felt. But, ultimately, it was not the “bunga bunga” parties that undid him, but his inability to cope as Italy’s debt reached unsustainable levels in 2011, when he was forced to resign in favour of technocrats.