"In the reactions that followed, Astori's death above all restored a unique soul to a city that had almost become hostile to itself due to its divisions. [...] Astori succeeded in this crazy alchemy, giving an entire city a single voice to start again. It is not a huge problem for football, but it is for Florence, a city of the world that no longer knows where it belongs, waiting for others to live. Astori told it that it exists anyway. A painful fantasy of which he will undoubtedly be proud, wherever he is now."