"64 years of marriage", former president Napoletano and the love story with his wife Clio

This Tuesday, the 88-year-old wife of Giorgio Napolitano - Clio was also present at the state funeral ceremony of the 11th President of Italy.

Giorgo Napoletano spoke about the woman who was now in a wheelchair for the last time in 2016.

"I am a disobedient monogamist," Giorgio Napolitano described himself in an interview with Maurizio Costanzo in October 2016, almost two years after leaving the Quirinale for good.

While talking about the woman he lived with for 64 years, he confessed that he met her in Naples and they got engaged in Rome. " We used to meet a lot at the restaurant, so much so that she told me I was hungry...not in love ," Napoletano recalled at the time.

The last public photo of Giorgio and Clio Napolitano together dates back to January 14, 2015, the day they descended from the highest hill in Rome to return home to the Monti neighborhood. Clio, is known as a former First Lady always allergic to ceremonies in the 9 years she spent alongside the eleventh President of the Republic.

Ms. Napolitano was a lawyer for the League of Cooperatives until 1992. The two met in 1959 in Rome, where she had moved from the province of Ancona to train at a law firm and Napolitano was a promising young leader. PCI.

They married in a civil ceremony in Rome after a few months of engagement and went to live in Naples. She, the daughter of two communists arrested by fascism who conceived her during political isolation in Ponza. Clio was named so because there was a Greek communist on the island of the hermits who had a daughter by that name.

The Giorgio-Clio couple moved to Rome in 1966, when Napolitano, who had already been an MP since 1953, was called to the national leadership of the party in Botteghe Oscure. They went to live in the apartment in Monti, the same one they will return to after leaving the Quirinale.

They had two sons, Giovanni and Giulio. An inseparable couple, they always vacationed together in the Pusteria Valley and especially in Stromboli.