A drama of loneliness like many others and yet different, unique, as every human being is. Cesare Spiga, 62 years old, died in recent days in Sassari in a small apartment, where he lived alone, in a side street of Corso Trinità. The body was found in a degraded condition and identified with difficulty.
That face, almost unrecognizable, had achieved a certain notoriety in 2016 when Cesare, without a job and reduced to a homeless life, was hosted by the leader of the Tressardi comedy group Umberto Graziano. «He spent about 40 days at my house - says Graziano - I helped him to have a home and find a job». The story of that unusual rescue attempt soon became popular and was told on national and local TV. «We were at the "Maurizio Costanzo Show” - continues Umberto - and at “I fatti tue” at Giancarlo Magalli's". And so Spiga, who carried on a family history that to define as disadvantaged would be an understatement, from Genoa to Sulcis to Sassari, manages to escape from the shadow of the invisible, the one to which life had always condemned him. But that dark mark remains imprinted on his skin and he cannot erase it. He loses his jobs, starts begging again, gets sick.
Perhaps he was followed by the municipal social services who, however, when contacted, took refuge behind confidentiality. He is certainly hospitalized for some time and until two months ago he would have been in hospital. "I saw him in February - recalls the Tressardi frontman - he told me he was very ill". Then the death and return to anonymity of those who came close to celebrity and ended up swallowed up again by their own history.
