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This is a list of Italian supercentenarians (people from Italy who have attained the age of at least 110 years). As of 13 March 2017, there are 17 living supercentenarians in Italy. The oldest living Italian person is Emma Morano, born 29 November 1899, age 7009370122480000000♠117 years, 104 days, who also is the world's oldest living person and the oldest Italian person ever.
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100 oldest Italian people ever
Deceased Living
†^ denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of 13 March 2017
Chronological list of the oldest living person in Italy since 1991
Deceased Living
Antonio Todde
Antonio Todde (22 January 1889 – 3 January 2002) was an Italian supercentenarian who, at the time of his death, was the oldest man in the world. 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 in the medieval center of Tiana, Todde was the third of 12 children. In 1920, 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, where he was injured in the shoulder by a grenade. He died at age 112 years, 346 days on 3 January 2002.
Virginia Dighero
Virginia Dighero (married Zolezzi, 24 December 1891 – 28 December 2005) was an Italian supercentenarian. On 14 September 2005, she became the longest-lived person of Italian descent ever, having surpassed Amalia Ruggieri Barone, who was an emigrant to the United States.
At the time of her death, she was the oldest ever documented person from Italy at the age of 114 years, 4 days - a title she held for more than five years, until being surpassed by Venere Pizzinato on 28 November 2010. She was also the 7th-oldest living person in the world, at time of death, and the oldest verified living person in Europe.
Dighero-Zolezzi died of ischemia on 28 December 2005.
Venere Pizzinato
Venere Pizzinato (married Papo, 23 November 1896 – 2 August 2011) was an Italian supercentenarian, living to the age of 114 years, 252 days. At the time of her death she was the oldest person ever from Italy, a title she held until 13 December 2011 when she was surpassed by Dina Manfredini. She was the world's third oldest living person, behind Besse Cooper and Chiyono Hasegawa. Pizzinato was also the oldest person ever to have been born in the Austrian-Hungarian empire. She was the oldest person ever to be born and die in Italy, until being surpassed by Emma Morano on 9 August 2014.
She was born in Ala, Trentino, then part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire, on 23 November 1896. In 1902 the family moved to Verona, where they had relatives. In 1903, the family moved back to Trentino, where Pizzinato attended a boarding school in its capital city, Trento. World War I forced Pizzinato to take refuge in Bazzano, Bologna. After the war, she moved back to Milan where she took Italian citizenship and met her future husband Isidoro Papo. During the outbreak of World War II, 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, the couple moved to Verona, where they finally settled. Mr. Papo died in 1981. The couple never had any children. Pizzinato remained in Verona for the rest of her life; at the time of her death, she lived in a retirement home there.
On 23 November 2010, marking her 114th birthday, Pizzinato was visited by Italy's president, Giorgio Napolitano, who wrote her a letter with the words "In this happy and special occasion I would like to send, on behalf of all Italians, sincere congratulations and good wishes of serenity with her loved ones and people around the community Saint Catherine in Verona".
Stella Nardari
Stella Nardari (married Vecchiato, 23 December 1898 – 23 February 2012) was an Italian supercentenarian. Aged 113 years, 62 days, she was the oldest person living in Italy since the death of Venere Pizzinato, on 2 August 2011, although Dina Manfredini was the oldest living Italian person in the world. She died ranked as the world's 10th oldest living person. After Nardari's death, Maria Redaelli became the oldest person living in Italy.
Nardari was born to Maddalena Polo and Giovanni Nardari, in San Cipriano, Veneto, Italy. She lived in Marcon and in Mestre. In recent years she lived in Roncade. She was married to Giovanni Vecchiato, who died in 1970. The couple had four children. Nardari enjoyed milk and coffee, chocolate, snacks and biscuits. She spent time on the veranda in the morning, preferring to rest in the afternoon.