Goodbye to Clio Maria Bittoni Napolitano

Clio Maria Bittoni Napolitano, wife of the former president emeritus of the Republic Giorgio, who passed away on 23 September 2023, died in Rome at 89.

Clio Maria Bittoni died at 89, after a long illness, on 10 September 2024. Since 1959, she had been the wife of the former President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, who died on 22 September 2023 at the age of 98

Born Clio Maria Bittoni, in Chiaravalle, in the Marche region, on 10 November 1934. She was named after the muse of history, after the daughter of one of her fellow prisoners, and Maria was finally given to her grandparents at the baptism. She grew up with politics already at home. He studied at the classical high school in Jesi and then graduated in law at the Federico II University of Naples. Here she meets her future husband, who she will meet again in Rome, where he took the path of politics, she that of the lawyer. She married in 1959 in a civil ceremony at the Capitol, as Communist Party officials did. Two sons, Giovanni, born in 1961, and Giulio, born in 1969. He has two grandchildren, Sofia (born in 1997) and Simone (born in 1999), who are the children of Giovanni and Darlene Tymo.