ROME: "Italy without Berlusconi." With three words, the country's biggest-selling Corriere della Sera daily on Tuesday captured the chasm created by the death of its most seductive and divisive politician.

A youthful Silvio Berlusconi smiled in photographs featured on most front pages as the papers paid tribute to a man who rose from cruise ship crooner to media mogul and three-time prime minister before dying on Monday at 86.

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