Rome is to name a public space after
Monica Vitti, the Roman-born Italian screen legend who died
Wednesday at the age of 90, Mayor Roberto Gualtieri said at her
lying in state at the Campidoglio (Capitol) Friday.
"Monica Vitti was an extraordinary actress who is rightly being
remembered and celebrated all over the world," Gualtieri said.
"We want to honour her. The Casa del Cinema is organizing a
showing of her films today and tomorrow and we will also try to
remember her properly, naming a place in our city after her".
The husky voiced Vitti, who moved seamlessly from being
companion Michelangelo Antonioni's 'incommunicability muse' in a
trio of cult films in the 60s to a star of commedia all'italiana
with the likes of Alberto Sordi beside her, was a "very much
loved figure, and the city mourns her, she was a Roman,
Romanissima," said Gualtieri.
Countless Romans and others filed past Vitti's coffin to pay
their last respects to the queen of Italian cinema on Friday,
many leaving cards saying "Grazie Monica".
Her widower and long-time caregiver, filmmaker Roberto Russo,
oversaw the ceremony with Gualtieri.
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