Francesca Barra this is the end of the day. greetings to beloved father. With a reel shared on social media, he announced his passing: “You were sucked in in a few days like I could never have imagined, and the speed of this goodbye it has torn our hearts to shreds.”
Francesca Barra’s farewell to her father Francesco Michele
A long message, written celebrating the life and soul of a great man. Francesca Barra he entrusted the words for his father to Instagram, with whom he had a unique relationship, also made up of simple gestures, those that most men make when they are missing: the squeezed in the morning prepare insistently, i poppy fields to collect (“Rooster, hen or chick?”, the game to make her guess the color), the excursions in Basilicata with the camera, the fairy tales about the ponds transformed into “cities of frogs” and today told by her youngest granddaughters.
“You were so kind, Dad. So kind that sometimes I wondered how you did it,” he wrote, wondering where that sweetness came from. The Calabria of the origins? Florence, where had he studied and fought politically? The sea of Basilicata that he had chosen as his home? “Who had taught you the rarest art of all: make people feel lovedevery day, without saving?”.
And then a final thought for him: “I have met the last best man in the world. And, thank God, he was also my fatherAt Barra’s side is her husband Claudio Santamariaas with a large family and children (Renato, Emma Angelina, Greta and Athena), the grandfather adored and “talked about constantly” in his last messages.
Who was Francesco Michele Barra
He was a politician by trade, but first of all he was a father. Francesco Michele Barra was Calabrian Mar Castrovillariborn in 1947. As a young man he went to Florence for study and there he began to approach the political. Then Basilicata, Policoro, the Ionian coast: the place where he created his family. His pride above all was his three children – Francesca, Avoid And Vittorio Benito – and eight grandchildren. A house where Lazy and his wife, in 2022, toasted fifty years of marriage. “Three brothers united by embroidery yours and your mother’s,” Barra wrote in her farewell.
He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1994, in the Pisticci constituency for the Basilicata constituency. During the 12th legislature he had worked in the Finance and Treasury Commission, bringing the voice of the South into the halls of Roman politics. A civic commitment which, as Francesca herself has said on various occasions, it affected her deeply since she was a girltransmitting to her that sensitivity for social issues which she then poured into her journalistic career.
My mother and father, the rest of the world and daughter’s parole and portrait of a father that he knew was there. “You left the way a great man leaves the earth: surrounded by the people he loves.” And then the most painful sentence of all: “Nothing will ever turn out well again. I won’t jump in the dark anymore certain to find your hold waiting for me.”
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