Flavia Franzoni, professor and spouse of Italy’s ex-Premier Romano Prodi, dies throughout hike at 76

ROME (AP) – Flavia Franzoni, a professor of social work and the spouse of former Italian Premier Romano Prodi, died Tuesday throughout a hike in Umbria, Italy’s rescue service stated. She was 76.

The Prodis and others have been strolling alongside the Via di Francesco, a preferred pilgrimage route between Gubbio and Assisi, when Franzoni collapsed, information stories stated. The Umbrian department of the nationwide Alpine rescue corps stated two groups responded to an emergency name and located Franzoni unconscious. Medics tried to resuscitate her, however “there was nothing more to be done” and a physician pronounced her useless on the scene, the corps stated.

The assertion famous that the resuscitation efforts occurred throughout a violent thunderstorm that prevented a helicopter from touchdown and evacuating Franzoni.

Franzoni, a professor of social work on the University of Bologna, was typically at Prodi’s facet throughout his political profession. Long a figurehead of Italy’s center-left, Prodi served two stints as premier beginning in 1996, after he based the center-left Olive occasion, and once more in 2006. He was European Commission president for 5 years beginning in 1999.

Condolences poured in from throughout the political spectrum, together with from the Italian president and inside minister. Franzoni’s loss of life got here as Italy was already mourning the loss of life of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi, lengthy the chief of Italy’s center-right.