Milan, April 22 (LaPresse) – ‘The first time for a pontiff at the G7, it was unique. I had no difficulty in convincing him to attend the work of the summit. It is one of the things done in these two and a half years that I am most proud of’. Thus in an interview with Il Messaggero, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. ‘The last meeting last Monday, I saw him very fatigued, which is why I did not stay long,’ she said. ‘How is he?’ I had asked him, trying to mask my concern. And he promptly replied: ‘Well I'm still alive’, and he burst out laughing and I with him'. ‘He was tried, but he was there,’ says Meloni, ‘intact in his role’. He adds that Bergoglio ‘had recommended to me: ’Don't lose your sense of humour, never. I recommend that you always laugh a little. An advice he loved to repeat to me often'. Pope Francis ‘was a pontiff with whom you could talk about everything, you could talk to him with great simplicity, like with your own parish priest’. ‘I loved him dearly,’ he emphasises, ‘an enormous good. And I am happy to have seen him one last time, to have gone to see him on Monday, just a week ago, for what was our last farewell. I am happy to have said goodbye to him, to have smiled with him one last time'.