Antonio Todde Antonio Todde (22 January 1889 – 3 January 2002) Todde was born in the village of
Tiana, in the
province of Nuoro,
Sardinia, an area noted for its
centenarian density. Born to a poor shepherd family, Todde was the third of 12 children. In 1920, at age 31, he married Maria Antonia, then aged 25, and they had four daughters and a son. She died in 1990, aged 95. He left Sardinia only to fight in
the First World War, He died at age 112 years and 346 days on 3 January 2002.
Venere Pizzinato Venere Ires Pizzinato (married Papo; 23 November 1896 – 2 August 2011) was an Italian
supercentenarian She was born in
Ala,
Trentino, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
World War I forced her to take refuge in
Bazzano,
Bologna. After the war, she moved to Milan, where she took Italian citizenship and met her future husband Isidoro Papo. During the outbreak of
the Second World War, in 1939, the couple moved to
Nice, France, to escape the Fascist regime of
Benito Mussolini. They married in France, and after the war they moved back to Milan. Upon retirement in 1964, they settled in Verona. Mr. Papo died in 1981. Pizzinato remained in Verona for the rest of her life, spending her final years in a retirement home. On 23 November 2010, marking her 114th birthday, Pizzinato was visited by Italy's president,
Giorgio Napolitano, who wrote her a congratulatory letter.
Marie-Josephine Gaudette Marie-Josephine Clarice Gaudette (25 March 1902 – 13 July 2017) was the oldest living Italian from the death of
Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death three months later. Born in
Manchester, New Hampshire, to French Canadian immigrants, she was also the oldest living person born in the United States from May 2016 to July 2017. A nun known as Mother Cecilia, she lived in Canada and France before settling in Rome. She lived at the Convento di Gesù e Maria from 1958 until her death, and was considered "the world's oldest nun". Gaudette died on 13 July 2017, aged 115 years and 110 days.
Giuseppina Projetto-Frau Giuseppina Projetto-Frau (married Frau; 30 May 1902 – 6 July 2018) was, at age 116 years and 37 days, the oldest living person in Italy from the death of Marie Josephine Gaudette on 13 July 2017, and the world's second-oldest verified living person upon the death of
Nabi Tajima on 21 April 2018, until her own death on 6 July 2018. She was born in
La Maddalena, but was of
Sicilian origin. Her maternal grandfather had moved from Sicily with the expedition of
Giuseppe Garibaldi. In 1946, she married Giuseppe Frau, a widower with three children. At the time of her death, Projetto lived in
Tuscany with her daughter-in-law and grandchildren.
Delio Venturotti Delio Venturotti (25 October 1909 – 1 June 2022) was the oldest living Italian-born person and the second oldest man in the world at the time of his death. aged 112 years and 219 days, he was the second oldest man in the world after
Juan Vicente Pérez; his death left Pérez as the last verified man born in the
1900s decade.
Lucia Laura Sangenito Lucia Laura Sangenito-Abbondandolo (born 22 November 1910) is the oldest living person in Italy and the
third oldest living person in the world. Lucia Laura Sangenito-Abbondandolo was born in
Sturno,
Campania,
Italy. She has lived there her entire life. As a young woman, she worked in the fields. She married in February 1939 and had four children; two of whom died as infants, with the other two, daughter Maria and son Michele, still living. She lost her home in the
1962 Irpinia earthquake and a new house was rebuilt in a different location in 1970. Her husband Pasquale Abbondandolo died at the age of 98 in 2010, and her mother Filomena Ceriello (1879–1980) died at the age of 101. She quietly celebrated her 110th birthday in November 2020 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. On 1 June 2024, she was visited by LongeviQuest, one of the top age validation organizations, who gave her a certificate recognizing her for being (at that time) the second oldest living person in Italy. She is the oldest person ever from the
Campania region of Italy, and, when
Claudia Baccarini died on 24 December 2024, she became the oldest living person in Italy. == Notes ==