AnnaFeliziani

Berlusconi e la Carfagna secondo The Independent

What exactly is the relationship betweenBerlusconi and his new pet? Ms Carfagna is known to have a steady boyfriend. And the first time she was invited to Berlusconi's flat in Rome's Palazzo Grazioli, it is said that she was chaperoned by her father, a diehard Berlusconi supporter, and that she entertained the company with a movement from Beethoven's "Pathetique" sonata.

But the old rogue cannot resist implying that there is more to it than that: clearly he gets a kick out of seeing his new minister blush. "Dear Mara," he said to her publicly on one occasion, "I am obliged to point out to you the rule that applies inside Forza Italia, the rule of ius primae noctis", which the medieval right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride of one of his subjects on the first night of her marriage. "You know I like women of easy morals ..."