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We all barely died. Lives of those that the virus has taken away

© Vittorio Valletta / Agf – The monumental cemetery of Milan

People, not numbers. Behind the statistics compiled by the institutions there are mothers, siblings, friends and even some everyday heroes. As far as possible we want to pay homage to them, telling their stories

of Manuela D'Alessandro

We chose the title of the second album by Fabrizio De Andre to introduce this initiative whose purpose is to honor the memory of the many coronavirus victims, so that their death is not just a statistical calculation or an anonymous balance sheet. Each of those dead were planted by family and friends who have not even been able to greet their loved ones. It cannot and will never be an exhaustive list. But it is our way of paying homage to those existences.

Ambrogio Rusconi in a photo he holds a panettone in his hands as if it were a world cup with candied fruit. Conquered in the field. “After an evening of bachata, here are the results of tonight”. Bread in all its forms, meats and joy in his food shop in Civate, Lecco lake. What he called Ambrose's' bread’ it was only one, But. He left it to the poor, in the evening but still fragrant like a flower, in a basket outside the store. E’ died in 73 years.

Arturo Senatore of rare words, in the loops of its silences it flowed “the silk to read, know, understand”. “Pure and graceful soul”, he worked in the municipality fighting “against building speculations and for the defense of the environment” in Herculaneum, the city of excavations. “He has often paid the price for his struggles”. He loved cycling on volcanic land. “All this flows over us in the hours when Christian countries following the Gregorian calendar celebrate the Easter of Christ's resurrection. – says Antonio – you will be looking for that island where harmony reigns, peace and equality: the island of Arturo”. E’ died in 57 years.

Fabrizio Marchetti has prepared thousands of sparkling cocktails. He came up with a project to teach children with Down syndrome how to prepare a perfect coffee. He ran a bar inside a park for ten years. He opened one, all his, with white tables and chairs, to Seveso. He shot the film 'White soul’ to denounce violence against women from an original angle. He has shaken all the ingredients, and drank in one gulp, too fast. E’ died in 32 years.

Stefano Cavero it had so many seas inside. The sea of ​​his Isola del Giglio, whose tender banks he had left as a boy, the sea of ​​work of Livorno where the corns had hardened with the salt of fatigue and the sea of ​​green cloth where he made the sample bottles dance. He had nostalgia, like one who has seas inside. “His dream was something romantic and ancient – tell the playmates – relaunch this specialty of billiards, without sticks but with marbles in our city. You always found him at the club, had involved some young people”. E’ died in 55 years.

Valter Palusci sooner or later he would knock on everyone's door, with a notification or a smile. Municipal office in Città Sant’Angelo, Pescara, he did tap-tap with kindness “making himself available to everyone at any time and on any occasion”, says the mayor. Whoever opened it was in front “a pillar for all of us” and even inside the house the five children rested on his steel shoulders. E’ died in 68 years.

Giuseppe Coco he was amazed at his craft: “I have fulfilled my dream of helping others and I am also getting paid”. Firefighter at Catania airport from where he guessed the small and large concerns of Etna, ‘The mountain he worshiped. Volunteer in the cross of Mascalucia, his country. He formed young colleagues. Sergio: “You taught me to know the more complicated means on which the fighters travel, it was as if you had built them. I can't remember a day without a problem and without your solution”. E’ died in 50 years.

Enzo Berti, “the gaze of those who go to the mountains, a mixture of animal attention to danger and a soul left as a child, surfacing in a smile”, the Cai of Verona remembers it. With this intense lightness he climbed 25 volte l'Himalaya, the last a few months ago. His, the old', she became docile to conquer after decades of love. In going up, he was distracted only to photograph a play of light or to spy on an animal.”He had two instincts in him: bring people to the mountains and bring the mountains to people”. He let his wife Gemma drag him to the last summit, left shortly before him. E’ died in 80 years.

Emidio Servidio of Orvieto has made life easier for thousands of traveling disabled people. As a boy he slept under the stairs, remembers Dante, but it strengthened the fiber to emerge. In the eighties, among the first to build sanitary ware suitable for fragile tourists, this is how his company 'Ponte Giulio' flourished, arrived as far as America and now led by her children. “Backward”, mushroom hunter and new ideas. “You have been an example for everyone. Thank you for creating a company centered on human values. We will all stand together to keep the fruit of your wits aloft”. Signed, its employees. E’ died in 84 years.

Walter Bassi, a 16 years he was in a castle one noisy April night. Monticello di Gazzola, from the parts of Piacenza, where together with others 31 partisans repelled the onslaught of Nazis and fascists. Little did he talk about it when he grew up, but enough to make his gold medal shine for having contributed to the Liberation. He boasted little, of courage and his talent in painting, that friends discovered by chance. He died one silent night on 24 of April, a 92 years.

Giuliano Mirandola of Villafranca di Verona was getting ready for that short jolt when the ball shot from the palm. “He took care of the body and nutrition” to get to the appointment with the ball, cold suitor that cannot make the embers overflow. Number one in Italy, winner of the 'Golden Ball'. “Hostile and tenacious opponent, until the last ball”. E’ died in 62 years.

Giovanni Tommasino “it's a mountain of goodness”, she imagined her daughter Ileana in a child's theme. A mountain that moved everywhere for his patients, following the blue line of the horizon of his Castellamare di Stabia. “There were no timetables, parties, Sundays to stop by. They called you and you ran!” At a fast pace, “you went against all odds and died like a hero. You were my angel on earth, you will be even more so in heaven”. E’ died in 61 years.

Franco Scaramuzza woke Ospitaletto for 40 years with coffee and brioche accompanied by a pirouette of crunchy smoke. “The first pastry chef” of the town in the province of Brescia, so important that there is an entire restaurant beating cutlery on glasses to greet him: “You saw us grow, made happy and celebrated spouses of any fate. You have brought us countless doves, Easter eggs, panettone and even just a gift for the friendship that has bound us”. In the evening, says Agnes, had a short rite: “Before leaving, he stopped for a flut of brut”. E’ died in 70 years.

anna bonafini “he had large green eyes” and a robin he called 'Red’ from which he received daily visits to his garden. At the checkout she enchanted the customers of the Schiavonia coop with her beauty, Padova. For a while’ suffered from a tumor, but she was sure she would heal. On his Facebook wall: “The greatest achievement in life is that, when someone thinks of you, smile”. E’ died a 35 years.

Arnaldo ‘Jess’ Gesmundo, one of the seven 'golden men’ of the 'robbery of the century’ in Milan. They attacked a van with 500 million in securities e 115 in banknotes of 5 and 10 thousand lire. Not an exploded shot, only one of the band that makes' ta.ta.ta’ with the mouth imitating a firing machine gun. “With the machine gun you command, it's when you don't have it that you have to be strong”. It was the 1958. Free in the eighties, pure charisma for the boys of via Padova, lively suburbs. He invited them to read a lot. He loved looking at the trees because “I've seen too much wall in life”. E’ died in 90 years.

Steven Rovelli, “in love with Mount Avaro”, white and soft in winter, bloomed among the rocks in summer. He went there with the trial bike, on skis, with legs to see the stars with Francesca. Computer engineer in Bergamo, it also caressed the abyss. “Swim in the seas of infinity”, friends from his dive center. “As a child, the joy it gave everyone to see him running back and forth at the Pierino bar”, where she still helped her grandmother when she could. Gloria, the sister: “You left on my birthday, I was given a guardian angel”. E’ died in a German hospital a 31 years.

Ivana Valoti it has been very close to happiness thousands of times. Midwife of Alzano Lombardo, Bergamo, “strong character and big heart”, says the mayor. “Your sweet way of communicating, unique, comfortable”. “Protect our children”. Mothers. She looked after hers, sick and then died from the virus. The Alpine troops want to dedicate a field hospital to her in Albania where she volunteered. E’ died a 58 years.

Anna Bergamaschi “he had an open smile and sweetness” of those who make you feel “in family” even in the open ocean of the Milan court. Mimmo remembers “the naturalness in placing oneself and the simplicity of those who are expert and prepared without wanting to highlight it”. He dealt with injunctions on the sixth floor of the building. “Beautiful and with golden hands”, says Vanda. He was waiting for the summer to retire. E’ died a 62 years.

Corrado Lamberti he has looked at the stars all his life, the first those stretched out on Lake Como, where he lived. He founded astronomical magazines with Margherita Hack, he spoke of the cosmos and the stars to the students in simple words, to scientists with wise words. In 1999, the International Astronomical Union has dedicated it to him “by merit” a tiny planet. “Hi Prof., now you too have become a star”, Hello Christian. E’ died in 72 years.

Giovanni and Alberto with his twin Baptist they lived in the same two-story house in the town of Cremosano, Christmas in Cremona. They saw each other often, bound by an iron wire: the two born on the same day had worked in the same company, Giovanni at the ironworks of Crema and Natale as a mechanical model maker. The four Brigaroli brothers, neighbors also in the obituary: “All friendly and respectable people”. They had a sister, Agnese. Stay her, the largest. They had 75,78 e 80 years.

Lorenzo Repetto, son of bakers, had bought a 32 years the only pharmacy in Saint Vincent, the Valle d'Aosta town nestled in a warm basin, with the casino and the springs. “A man who put himself at the service of the community”, for the mayor. “Beware of the most fragile, of proverbial anger for the problems that could not be solved”. Nicola and Matteo, children, both pharmacists, they reopened a few days after the bereavement: “We will increase the opening hours, dad will be proud”. E’ died in 64 years.

Giorgio Rossi, lawyer. On his business card was written 'Keep-in-mind’ according to D'Annunzio's adverb. “To solve problems it is necessary to speak about law using the voice of the heart, even if it is difficult between codes, articles and quibbles”. “He succeeded”, say the friends of the Donizetti Conservatory of Bergamo. “He also received and assisted those who did not have the money to pay for it. A principle: even outside the Forum”. E’ died in 64 years.

Mirko ‘Zagor’ Bertuccioli he had the talent “to send around words that sprouted in the heads like so many gifts”, Geneva says. He did it from two poles of his creative space: the 'Plastic' record and vinyl store’ in Pesaro and the indie group of 'Camillas’ of which he was the singer. “The dewy scent of a night / the round tables / on parking lots to be annihilated / the law of remembrance cannot give you back” (from the piece 'The arpeggios'). E’ died in 46 years.

Lorenzo Renzi he had gasoline in his body, in fact it was the 'Brooda’ in Cremonese because it was said that as a boy she had drunk a bit of it’ of his scooter. Energy to sing on the curve among the grigiorossi fans of his beloved 'Cremo’ who then became brothers of laughter and everything. Lorenzo's gasoline had a particular taste: “Hello man of infinite sweetness”, the club greets him. E’ died in 52 years.

Giovanni Fumagalli he was the son of the master's pianist”Hoof Tree, shot by Ermanno Olmi in the lower Bergamo area. Then he became a rock guy, master brewer to lick his mustache of foam. In the beers of his creation he has put pieces of roots and magic: the Loertis, asparagus in dialect, Kiss her, like an early 1900s elixir produced by his grandfather in his San Pellegrino, and the Camoz, in memory of a mountain guide. His, who loved to climb mountain sides. E’ died in 60 years.

Giuseppe Carrasi he sold the scent of loaf and heat in his' Little Oven’ near the square with the great castle of Cremona. He had learned the trade as a boy in his uncle's shop. “Forty years ago, he carried the bag of bread from house to house and always put a word in it for everyone”, tells the daughter to the newspaper 'La Provincia'. E’ died in 90 years.

Orazio Condorelli, metalworker from Gela, he worked in a workshop in Albino, near Bergamo, “he assembled and disassembled the pieces, he knew how to do everything”, says his wife Concetta. Even at home he moved his hands with wisdom, he invented objects with aluminum and wood. “Pope, you were a pearl in person”: Emanuele, the son of 18 years. E’ died in 47 years.

Aulo Mechelli, a municipal employee “who also worked on Sundays” to dilute red tape. At the Capitol he lined up names, surnames and essential traces of the identity of the Romans in his office at the Central Registry. “Very good in emergencies”, his “keen look” anticipated solutions, He loved the undulating sunsets of the island of Elba. The Oath room of the Rome Office will be named after him. E’ died in 65 years.

Fausto Welcome he was the inventor of the banana boat that has filled the eyes of joy and salt of generations of young and old, famous and not, bathers on the Romagna Riviera. The taste of flying in the sea of ​​Milano Marittina aboard a long fruit, but not only. Much of his success was “in his smile and joke for everyone”, reminiscent of those of Papeete Beach. E’ died in 71 years.

Ivano Borile of Montevecchia, a Lombard town of sweet green dunes, experience, says Marco, “herbs, the satellites, the hawks, hats and guitars”. Especially these he loved. He has played in many bands, appreciated by punk fans. “He had a lot of fun” to jump on the stages. Lastly it showed the films of the Vimercate cinema that now, like all, is closed. E’ died in 44 years.

Emiliano Perani it came from Casnigo, the town where Val Gandino (Bergamo) meets the mountains. Dreamer, illustrator, I photograph. Until two years ago he took a break, together with Nadia, seventeen thousand kilometers long, routes by public transport in South America. To find out and to help those who live there. Then in the end it all came back into pictures, collected in the book 'A journey for two', recently published. E’ died in 36 years.

Mario Soru, policeman, for many years he had worked on the seventh floor of the Milan courthouse. From where, on the clearest days, you can see the mountains and skyscrapers, trying to figure out who has the highest point. Instead, he had to focus on the safety of the judges who are at home there. Back and forth a thousand times, everyday. An exercise in patience, with eyes trained in the invisible. E’ died in 52 years.

Franco Galelli he was a man with the camera on his shoulder for Mediaset and, as the journalist Guy writes, “one operator is everything” because the image in the homes of the beholder always wins over the written word. The rooster', Monica says, who was with him in those waits, “he spent many days on a sidewalk, in a prison, in a court of law”, in the middle of the dust where to find the right light to tell. “We will meet again somewhere – Carmelo promises – and I'll drive you crazy with a thousand stand ups that the first is never good”. E’ died in 55 years.

Mario Giudici, artist of bread and painting. Endine Baker, a handful of houses overlooking the crystal lake of the Val Cavallina with the same name (Bergamo), in the evening he attended philosophy courses at the San Raffaele University in Milan. There he met Massimo Cacciari who presented him the latest exhibition in an abbey. It was called 'Spes'. E’ died in 71 years.

Stefano Martini he had two nicknames. “The Croma”, friends explain, due to the vigorous passion for motorcycles, “he was manic” in mounting them, take them apart, love him. E “London 40”, the code of his taxi with which he opened the wonders of Florence to those who got on it. Franco remembers it last month racing on the Sesto Fiorentino track with his eyes shining on the asphalt. E’ died in 64 years.

Sergio Rossi he began to frequent his father's shoemaker shop after the war. He invented sandals that made bathers fall in love with his Romagna then in bloom. A few years later, he put a pair on Anita Ekberg's feet as well as in the 'Dolce Vita’ he took them off for the easy dip in the Trevi Fountain. Then, monarch of luxury shoes in the world. E’ died in 85 years.

Fulvio Cortesini of Castelleone, Cremona, “he imagined his dance steps as traced by a brush on a sheet of paper”, says one of his teachers on the track. Era “of dazzling simplicity and elegance”. dancing with the “his sweetest Anna”, remembers Manuela, “left by enchantment”. The latest gift from the family was a tablet where he studied new steps. E’ died in 67 years.

Paolo Arselli he built his life on a foundation of sugar. First as a seasonal one, then as a worker and eventually director of the Eridania plant, one of the best known brands, from Sarmatia, near Piacenza. “Talking about the sugar factory is like talking about a family member for me”, he was excited in the documentary 'Sugar bitter?’ of 1992. E’ died in 69 years.

Ugo Rozzo has chased’ and collected in a book the now rare and fragile 'loose sheets'’ prints of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries which contained news of wars, natural disasters, appearances of comets and much more. He taught history of books at the university, he headed the library of his town, Tortona. the authors of such cruel practices are seven in total, two years ago, gave life to a powerful re-enactment of the Sforza wedding banquet of 1489 by Isabella d’Aragona and Gian Galeazzo Sforza. E’ died in 80 years.

Elio Di Maria when he was a boy in Genoa, tells the tuttobici site, he stopped to watch the runners so engrossed that one day the butcher uncle threw him a bone to revive him. It was tiny down and up the saddle, but it had fire. He won only one race, but huge because it was that of its land and its sea, the Genoa-Ventimiglia of 1950. To celebrate, but above all to wash because there was no changing room, he plunged into the waves. E’ died in 95 years.

Ariel Ahmad |, Moroccan, he was the father of a little girl from 12 years, had from an Italian ex-partner. He hadn't seen her for a long time and couldn't get her out of his mind. “A shy man, cute, gentile. He always thanked, even for the little things”, says Paola, historical volunteer of the Modena prison, where he was confined. He would be free again in 2022. E’ died in 36 years in the riot in prison following the rights restrictions for the virus.

Giorgio Tognazzi, “while he was putting the goods on the shelves or when he was at the checkout, he said good morning or good evening, always with kindness”, think again Maria. He was the union representative, without raising your voice: “Quiet, cautious, he cared about everyone's well-being”. Leno's supermarket, Brescia, where he had worked for years, closed for mourning. Had 57 years.

Egidio Fara was a “very strong goalkeeper”, the man who sends kisses from afar when his team scores. Then he mixed with all his size with hundreds of children and teenagers and their families as a coach. It was considered a 'special one’ in the football of the little ones because he had the gift, as well as entertain them, also to win. E’ died in 56 years.

Stefano Boni he had two unusual subjects for his paintings: who wore the uniform of the carabinieri and St. Nicholas of Tolentino, patron of his country, Viadana, province of Mantua, revered for distributing blessed sandwiches to the sick. For a lifetime he sold fishing rods and hunting tools, often with his accordion he was the protagonist at parties of lively elderly people. Lastly, he had put his paintings up for auction to finance the adventure of the Macron Warriors Viadana, wheelchair hockey team. E’ died in 85 years.

Giambattista Carrara svettava, “your height was proportionate to your great availability”, says his friend Giancarlo. Per 50 years bulwark of the band of Albino, Bergamo, scattering energetic notes from its filicorno. “It gave me courage because I was embarrassed as the only woman”, remembers Emanuela. Joint electrician, “he worked hard as if it were his home, it was painful to see colleagues making a living”. E’ died in 69 years.

Miguel Angel Pachas Mora, Peruvian, operator social health, Drug addicts are also stigmatized by the wider and largely conservative Afghan community “a slight presence” who knew how to soften the pains in the back and bones of the patients in the radiology department and also their mood edges. At the Città Studi clinic in Milan, colleagues write, “your name echoed in the corridor, we called you certain that you would come to help”. Lieve, But “with your strength you moved the sick and you supported everyone making us more confident”. E’ died in 53 years.

Valentino Fiorino Donina, parmigiano, he dealt with passages. As a lay celebrant, accompanied with gestures, words and symbols welcome and farewell ceremonies, equinoxes and solstices, house or garden inaugurations. He was interested in everything in between’ a before and an after, that streak of trepidation. His friend Paola says he will plant a marigold for him, an Indian carnation, “which is as full of quality as you were”. E’ died in 59 years.

Zaccaria Cometti between the poles he had a dry style but he flew. He married Atalanta, the team with the name of a Goddess, huntress and very fast, He was his goalkeeper when the club won the Coppa Italia in 1963, the only trophy on the showcase. He got desperate, remembers Piepaolo, when the thieves stole his medal from his home. “The best in exits”. E’ died in 83 years.

Angelo 'Ali’ Rottoli he believed in himself: “Me ‘l Tyson? Go my fear!’. European champion of light heavyweight in 1987, brought a global challenge to Bergamo, lost with the Puerto Rican 'Sugar’ De Leon. Defeats did not knock him down. “Play boy, full of energy, coarse, ironic”, he let pink notes bloom on his account for the off-road escapes with the then diva Brigitte Nielsen and the jokes on the yacht with the Formula driver 1 Keke Rosberg. Luca remembers the funniest undertaking: “that time we went down from Montebello to Foppolo with the motorbike instead of the skis”. E’ died in 61 years.

Gino Cassinelli he had come up with his latest crazy idea, tells a friend, last summer: open the review 'Lodi al Sole’ with a piano concert carried by a helicopter on the Achilli islet, peeping into the Adda river, With its association 'Num del burgh’ gathered hundreds of people in epic freshwater regattas. Male nurse, then masseur, “simple but deeply in love with his city”. E’ died in 77 years.

Nazareno Giannitto, Foggia origins, he worked as a prison police officer in the Opera prison, translation and picketing nucleus. He accompanied the inmates and checked that everything was quiet. In 2014 he had received a bronze medal of merit. "Generous", the guarantor of the detainees reminds us, Francesco Maisto. Colleagues wrapped his coffin with the tricolor. He died a 52 years.

Mario Benedetti he thought that poetry was "coming at loggerheads with existence". That is: "Do not believe too much in stylistic-formal knowledge but have things to say". Born from Too, in Friuli and considered by some critics to be one of the greatest contemporary poets, he taught in a professional institute in Milan for many years. He lived with a chronic disease from an early age. “I brought some old things with me to look at the trees: one winter, the few leaves on the branches, an empty bench ". He died a 64 years.

Francesco Azzolari era “a fat man”, says his friend Enzo: stubborn and gruff, in milanese. “Little talk and a lot of distinctive”, adds Franco. Qualities that benefited from the firm earth of the rugby fields. Even if he was on board, as a manager. “Never played, but he understood most of all”. Until a few days ago the red and white headquarters opened, at the Idroscalo, the sea of ​​Milan. E’ died in 76 years.

Sergio Bassi, better known as' Horse. Crazy', he set the Po Valley to music with the Padus River Band, the river Po and the bizarre characters of water and flat land. Among his successes, 'And the river is watching', an album that in 20 songs accompanies the Po from Monviso to its mouth. "I saw you get lost in a big sea and rise among the clouds further away ... then more rain and who knows where it will go". He died in Crema a 69 years.

Gianni Bolzoni Journey among Afghan drug addicts 57 years, until a few days ago, has given slowness, together with his wife Clemy, in the trattoria 'Il Fulmine' in Trescore Cremasco. In the rustic space created between the fog and the colors painted by the director Luca Guadagnino, we spent hours chewing culatello and delicacies from the Bassa, lulled by his prodigal gaze. He died a 80 years.

Mariangelo Buttafava, it crossed in every corner of Casal Pusterlengo, often with his pug on a leash. Carabiniere who loved to tell jokes, he was among the founders of the local Cross, volunteer at the bar of the Capuchin Oratory, animator of the 'Curtain', the dialect company of the country that sets up comedies for charity "to tell the man and his weaknesses". “As you said, pusé, pusé”, greet him on Facebook. "Here we go, here we go". He died a 69 years.

Francesco (Ciccio) From Francesco, to continue to give birth to brilliant young minds, it has left many traces of itself, even a fountain: that of the 'two rivers', in the square of his native town, Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Sicily. He painted “fishermen, dreams and Madonnas ", says those who loved his artistic gesture and gave some works to his acquired city, Bergamo. Finally, he gave her the last energies: had returned in an emergency to carry out the profession "obeying his being a doctor", writes a friend of his. He died a 82 years.

And Francesco Frigerio they all passed through Cesana Brianza. With his wife Maria, both in white aprons, managed the food historian of the town, the one with the candies in the big plastic jars and everything you need to put in the cupboard, He had invented home shopping and a drawing competition for children who bought his candies he saw saddened because they no longer went to school due to the virus. "His voice – remembers the mayor – every year announced the arrival of the torchlight procession which marked the end of summer ". He died a 73 years.

Eros Gandola designed green spaces and sold plants and flowers in the 'pearl of Lake Como', the glittering Bellagio, resting on the promontory that divides the two branches. "Historical exponent of the voluntary emergency room association", the mayor reminds him, bearing witness to "his precious commitment to the community". Member of the club degli alpini, he trained budding footballers. He lived with his mother. He died a 49 years.

Serena Lanfranchi by Calolziocorte, province of Lecco, she had the soft touch of the setter who makes the volleyball team spin. He had worn the jersey of his country and then of other clubs in the area, in the meantime he drew for a living. “I remember your smile Sere, your voice as we played, always the same smile even when I met you this summer. You had that smile in your soul ". She died a 45 years.

Arrigo Lanfredini of Viadana, province of Mantua, he did not have a car workshop but a clinic: “It healed dynamo, transplanted starters, healed distributors, made the radios sing ", writes his friend Angelo. At night, There is always a more unhappy and more ignored victim, studied, "His nights were an immersion in technical literature". Because of the back, worn out by too much love for her job, he had had to close his shop, but they called him from neighboring villages to ask for a fulminating diagnosis. He died a 81 years.

Don Fausto Painting “He went away in the silence and solitude of the night, just like many men who lived on the street he took care of in his ministry ", said his comrades from the Don Milani Community of Sorisole, Bergamo. Chaplain of the city prison for over 30 years, "My life sentence". He didn't like definitions, like that of "street priest". He died a 67 years.

Francesca Scalabrini has turned many pages, without ever losing the thread. Elementary teacher with a passion for technology, Federica's mother with whom she lived in Rho, near Milan, graduated in mature age, he had been collaborating for some time with the Catholic University of Milan in the training of young teachers. The 10 last March he left these words on Facebook: “Dedicate yourselves to those who make you laugh, to think, to grow up. The tree does not host the nests of all the birds ". She died a 55 years.

Alessandro Serioli if you met him as a boy on the parquet you turned away or gave the ball to the first one you met. "Otherwise they were beaten" or, at best, he flew to the basket. Iseo basketball, the team of the small lake center, he has always remained a fan. Behind the bark, "It hid a great goodness of mind and irony", says his friend Beppe. He was sorry not to be able to donate blood in these days that was needed, but he was in bed with a fever. Your house is dead, without ever arriving at the hospital, a 48 years. Leave the ball to his wife and two children.

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