Mario Fiorentini

Italian partisan and mathematician

Mario Fiorentini (7 November 1918 – 9 August 2022) was an Italian partisan, spy, mathematician, and academic. He was a professor of geometry at the University of Ferrara. He helped an assault mission at Regina Coeli prison and took part in the organization of the attack in via Rasella. He was Italy's most decorated World War II partisan.[1]

Mario Fiorentini
NicknameGandi, Finch, Dino
Born(1918-11-07)7 November 1918
Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Died9 August 2022(2022-08-09) (aged 103)
Rome, Italy
AllegianceItaly
Service/branchVolunteer Corps of Freedom
Years of serviceSeptember 1943 – May 1945
RankCommander
Battles
Awards Silver Medal of Military Valor (3)
War Merit Cross

Fiorentini died on 9 August 2022 at a hospital in Rome, Italy at the age of 103.[2]

References change

  1. "Italy's most decorated WWII partisan dies". ANSA. 9 August 2022.
  2. "Italy's most decorated second world war resistance fighter dies aged 103". The Guardian. August 9, 2022.