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Francesco Saverio Pavone, magistrate
17Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Francesco Saverio Pavone, magistrate

Francesco Saverio Pavone –an Italian magistrate, chief of the Procura di Venezia for several years – died of Covid-19 on 16 March 2020.   Born in Taranto on March 25, 1944, he worked for several years as a clerk of the court, where he had won a competitive examination in the late 1970s. In 1980 he took up service in the courthouse in Venice, first in the role of judge in the court and then as prosecutor. In the lagoon city he dealt with investigations on organized crime and kidnappings. In 1988 Pavone's "pool" (group of magistrates in the same case) brought to light the complete organization chart of the Mala del Brenta which was wreaking havoc in Veneto, investigations that led in 1994 to the trial that dismantled the Mala del Brenta, with Felice...
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Sergio Bassi, singer & songwriter
17Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Sergio Bassi, singer & songwriter

Sergio Bassi –an Italian folk singer-songwriter – died from Covid-19 on 16 March 2020.   Sergio was raised by his maternal grandparents in a small hamlet in Codogno, Lombardy. After adulthood, he moved to Legnano, later to Piacenza, then he lived in San Francesco al Campo for seven years. Later, he returned to his hometown.   During the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, he contracted novel coronavirus. On 16 March, he died from the infection in Crema.
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Vittorio Gregotti, architect
16Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Vittorio Gregotti, architect

Vittorio Gregotti –an Italian architect, born in Novara – died due to coronavirus on 15 March 2020.   He was seen as both a member of the Neo-Avant Garde and a key figure in 1970s Postmodernism.   Gregotti was born in Novara, in the Italian Piedmont, and attended the Politecnico di Milano. He worked as a contributor to Casabella, an architectural magazine, and was its editor-in-chief from 1955 to 1963. Gregotti founded his own studio, Gregotti Associati International, in 1974 but also lectured on architectural theory and curated several exhibits in Italy.   His studio has designed several important sports venues and cultural buildings, such as the Barcelona Olympic Stadium, the Belém Cultural Center in Lisbon, the Arcimboldi Opera T...
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Piero Schlesinger, jurist
15Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Piero Schlesinger, jurist

Piero Schlesinger Knight Grand Cross OMRI (19 May 1930 – 14 March 2020) was an Italian jurist, banker, lawyer and academic who served as president of the Banca Popolare di Milano from 1971 to 1993.   Piero Schlesinger graduated in jurisprudence in Turin. In 1956 he began his academic career at the University of Urbino and, two years later, personally chosen by its dean and founder Father Agostino Gemelli, moved to the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, where he held the chair of private law for over three decades.   Manuale di diritto privato, the academic textbook of private law he co-authored with Andrea Torrente, is considered one of the most studied and influential of its kind in Italy. Among his pupils were lawyers Giuseppe Lombardi...
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Giovanni Battista Rabino, politician
14Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Giovanni Battista Rabino, politician

Giovanni Battista Rabino –an Italian politician from the Christian Democracy party who served as member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1983 to 1992, then a single term, between 1992 and 1994, as Senator – died of Covid-19 on 12 March 2020.   He was born in Montaldo Scarampi, and served as mayor of the city between 2004 and 2009. Before his political career, Rabino was a trade unionist, active in Alessandria's Coldiretti branch.   Rabino died from COVID-19 at the Cardinal Massaja Hospital in Asti on 12 March 2020. His funeral was held two days later.
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Diego Bianco, Paramedic
14Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Diego Bianco, Paramedic

Diego Bianco – a Paramedic in Lombardy, Italy – passed away on 13 March 2020 due to COVID-19. Diego was 47 years old. Bianco lived and worked in Lombardy, a part of the country hit hard by the virus. “Diego was a trained worker, a rescuer who has always used personal protective equipment, was not elderly and did not have any other diseases,” his union representative said. Source: JEMS Please help us in adding details.
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