The long-serving president of Italy was a pillar of stability in the hurly-burly of his country’s politics.
“Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations,” the New York Timesas saying at the time. “It is time to reestablish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.”
Such was his commitment to the Communist cause that he supported the Soviet quashing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. But by the following decade, he had begun to turn against Moscow, the Times reported in a profile. He spoke out against the brutal Soviet response to the Prague Spring movement in 1968.
Mr. Napolitano was married in 1959 to Clio Maria Bittoni, a lawyer. Besides his wife, survivors include two sons, Giovanni and Giulio. A complete list of survivors was not immediately available.By the end of his time on the public stage, Mr. Napolitano had been named a senator for life, one of his country’s highest honors. But in his earlier days as a moderate Communist, he was a man in the middle, enjoying the full trust neither of his fellow party members nor of the West.
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