Mario Fiorentini, an Italian partisan, spy, mathematician, and academic, for years a professor of geometry at the University of Ferrara has died.
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He was operative in numerous actions including the assault on the entrance to the Regina Coeli prison and participated in the organization of the attack in via Rasella.
He was also Italy’s most decorated World War II partisan.
Mario Fiorentini cause of death
Fiorentini died Tuesday in a Rome hospital aged 103.

A cause of death was not given and his death was confirmed by the National Partisans Association of Italy’s Rome chapter.
Though a cause of death was not given, it’s believed that he died of natural causes.
Mario Fiorentini age
Fiorentini was born on 7 November 1918 and he died on 9 August 2022. He was 103 years and was a few months away from 104th birthday.
Mario Fiorentini parents
Fiorentini was born in Rome in 1918 to Maria Moscatelli and Pacifico Fiorentini.
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His mother, a Catholic, moved to Rome from Cittaducale in search of work, like many other young people at the time; his father was instead of Jewish religion, by profession an accountant and bankruptcy trustee
Mario Fiorentini young
As a student, Fiorentini collaborated clandestinely with Giustizia e Libertà and with the Communist Party.
At the beginning of 1943, he set up with Plinio De Martiis with performances at Mazzini Theater and at Delle Arti with actors such as;
- Vittorio Gassman,
- Lea Padovani,
- Nora Ricci,
- Vittorio Caprioli,
- Carlo Mazzarella,
- Alberto Bonucci and Ave Ninchi, directed by Luigi Squarzina, Adolfo Celi, and Mario Landi.
After 25 July 1943, with Antonello Trombadori, he formed a group of partisans known as Arditi del Popolo.
Mario Fiorentini wife
Fiorentini was married to Lucia Ottobrini. She died in 2015.
Mario Fiorentini children
Firentini and Ottobrini had three children; Claudia (born 1946), Giancarlo (born 1951), and Davide (born 1963).
Mario Fiorentini net worth
At the time of death, Fiorentini had an estimated net worth of $1 million.


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