Silvio Berlusconis own publishing firm releases book celebrating PM as Superman

By Nick Squires in Rome 548PM GMT sixteen March 2010

Italy"s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi leaves Duomo"s block with red red blood on his face after a domestic celebration assembly in Milan Photo REUTERS

Mr Berlusconi"s edition association Mondadori has expelled the book, called "Love regularly wins over enviousness and hatred", forward of critical informal elections at the finish of this month.

Bearing a cover sketch of Mr Berlusconi seeking younger than his 73 years, it contains a small of the 50,000 messages he perceived from Italians after a man with a story of mental seizure hurled a commemoration statuette at his face in Milan in December, violation his nose and outstanding dual teeth.

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"Even with kryptonite they couldn"t hit you down!" wrote one believer maybe an reference to the actuality that Mr Berlusconi has formerly described himself as Superman.

Well-wishers described as "abominable" the conflict by Massimo Tartaglia, 42, an wiring operative who will go on hearing in the subsequent couple of weeks on attack charges.

"We are all with you, good Silvio. You are the engine of the country," a lady identified as Eleonora gushed, whilst an additional fan urged the budding apportion to counterpart himself.

"On saying you lonesome in blood, my mother grabbed her hair and sobbed as she yelled "My Madonna, save Silvio!"" one man wrote.

The book, that is on sale for fifteen euros (�13.60), was mocked as "The small white book of Silvio Ceausescu" by the left-leaning Repubblica journal in a front page editorial.

The paper likened it to Colonel Gaddafi"s Green Book of domestic truth and pronounced it was suggestive of the sort of hagiographies released by dictators in Eastern Europe and South America.