At the age of 85 Lucia Zagaria, wife of Lino Banfi, passed away.

The news was given by her daughter Rosanna with a post on Instagram that portrays her mother, young and smiling, in an old black and white photo while eating ice cream: "Hi Mami, now you are like this again. Have a good trip."

Lucia Zagaria had long suffered from Alzheimer's disease and was cared for until the end by her husband, married in 1962: from their union, in addition to Rosanna, another son, Walter, was also born.

A little less than a month ago Rosanna Banfi, also an actress, told in an interview that her mother was not well: "She always feels the need for a father close. He always seeks it and this comes before everything else, before anything else: health and family union".

A love that lasted over 60 years

Lino and Lucia had met ten years before the wedding when they were just teenagers, 15 years old him, 13 her. The actor, while trying his luck in the north, had maintained, in the distance, always an exchange with the girl who had made his heart beat.
The couple managed to marry only many years later, using the expedient of fuitina, in order to force their respective families to accept their union.

In many years the artist has always said that Lucia, strongly loved, had never had reason to be jealous of any of the beautiful actresses who had surrounded him on the set of his many films, "not even of Edwige Fenech".

In one of the last interviews released, Banfi had told during the pandemic, moved, of a question that his wife had asked him shortly before: "Lino, but can't we find the way to die together the two of us? Because if you die first, I can't do it."

A short time later the actor revealed to a weekly that he had written a letter to the Pope in which he confessed that he had asked God, as a last wish, to die together with his wife, at the same time "holding hands as we have always done in our lives".

To those who asked Banfi the secret of their long-lived love, the actor replied: "The recipe is the construction of a common house, of sacrifices and resistance. You become an anti-seismic house that is not demolished".