Giulio Andreotti Is Mourned in Rome ROME - The Italian media on Tuesday hailed the late Giulio Andreotti, the seven-time prime minister who dominated politics here for 50 years, with reams of analysis and interviews and hours of televised commentary reviewing the mysteries of a legacy that pulled the country through postwar rebuilding as well as Cold War machinations against Communism. Web sites packaged some of his most famous, caustic aphorisms (for instance, "I love Germany so much I preferred two.") His infamous nicknames were resurrected: Beelzebub, and Il Divo Giulio, the Divine Julius, coined for another man of power - a Caesar who reigned some 2000 years ago - and popularized by the influential film director Paolo Sorrentino. "He was a man of the Vatican, a man of the Cold War, and a man of controversy, so there are shadows that linger," like charges of association with the Mafia, said Massimo Franco, a political commentator and the author of a biography of the late prime minister. He also governed in a period of economic boom and international prestige, adding to the complexity of assessing his power. Mr. Andreotti, who died on Monday at age 94, did not have a state funeral. Pallbearers bore his coffin from his apartment in Rome, directly across the Tiber River from the Vatican, to the nearby church of San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini. For decades, Mr. Andreotti attended Mass there every morning. A smattering of well-wishers applauded as the coffin passed. Earlier, a steady stream of people paid their respects to the family, as television crews clogged traffic on one of Rome's main central streets vying for a glimpse of celebrity mourners. Among those calling were the recently re-elected president, Giorgio Napolitano, family friends, and the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. No Mafia links were ever proven by an Italian court, though Mr. Andreotti was tried twice. Still, many Italians see him as the keeper of state secrets possibly best left unknown that may have contributed to the nation's postwar recovery even as the consequent compromises chipped away at its moral bearings. "He was the interpreter of many, many contradictions, of all the shadows and also some lights of Italy in the post war period," said the political commentator Stefano Folli, speaking on a morning show on Radio 24. A front page article in La Stampa offered little hope that future historians would come up with a clear picture of Mr. Andreotti. "It's very probable," wrote Luigi La Spina, that they "will end up giving up in the face of the unsurpassable wall that does not allow for any judgment and prohibits that any final verdict is delivered on his account: the wall of his mystery."