The constitutionalist
Lorenza Carlassare
passed away today at the age of 91 .
Emeritus professor of the University of Padua, Carlassare died in her home in the Venetian capital.
She was the first woman to win a chair of constitutional law in Italy.
"With Lorenza Carlassare, a renowned jurist who has profoundly marked the constitutional debate in our country disappears. Always in defense of the Charter and its fundamental principles",
Enrico Letta
wrote on Twitter.
A "free and courageous woman".
Thus the national president of the Anpi,
Gianfranco Pagliarulo
, recalled Lorenza Carlassare on social media, "in my name and in the name of all the Anpi. I remember a free and courageous woman, her battle for civil and fully democratic coexistence, for morality of the institutions, for their anti-fascist roots. A woman of a constitutional character. Her disappearance is a grave loss for our country. We will keep her intelligence and her passion alive ".
