Simona Mafai De Pasquale (5 July 1928 – 16 June 2019) was an Italian politician for the Communist Party (PCI). She was elected to the Senate of the Republic in 1976, serving until 1979.[1]
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Biography
editShe was born in Rome, to painters/sculptors Mario and Antonietta Raphael. Mafai De Pasquale was married to Pancrazio De Pasquale, future president of the Sicilian Regional Assembly, until his death in 1992.[2]
Mafai De Pasquale died of stroke on 16 June 2019 in Palermo, at the age of 90.[2] She was the sister of the journalist and politician Miriam Mafai.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Scheda di attività di Simona Mafai" (in Italian). Senate of the Republic. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ a b "Morta Simona Mafai. Fu senatrice, sposò Pancrazio De Pasquale". Stampalibera.it (in Italian). 16 June 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ Mancina, Claudia (2016). "Mafai, Miriam". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Treccani.