After forcing the all female audience to watch a film narrating his prodigious accomplishments throughout the inhabited world, he offered a predawn dinner inundated with butterflies to the point D'Addario describes as indigestion caused by butterflies. The butterflies were not real though- perhaps not on call in October. I was reminded of A.S. Byatt's "Morpho Eugenia" in Angels and Insects.
There's the slow dance as the pianist sings "My Way". She had previously described the dance as being tightly squeezed by a Berlusconi smothered in make-up, de rigueur black shirt, and sporting pumps to compensate his stumpiness.
There is now a video online put up by l'Espresso of a party at Villa Certosa when Russia and Georgia were at war last August. The accompanying article identifies many of the people there, most notably the entrepreneur Tarantini who is at the center of the Bari investigation. Music sung by Simon Le Bon.
On that date, August 11th, the press said Berlusconi was with his family, but in continuous contact with other members of G8 to follow the crisis.
The car belonged to one of the witnesses who confirmed Patrizia D'Addario's testimony. The woman, Barbara Montereale, accompanied Ms. D'Addario on one of her trips to Palazzo Grazioli.
Montereale also attended parties in Sardinia.
