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Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was an Italian banker, economist, and statesman born on 9 December 1920 in Livorno, Tuscany, to Pietro Ciampi, an optician, and Maria Masino.
He died on 16 September 2016 in Rome at the age of 95.
A graduate in classical philology and literature from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1941 and later in law from the University of Pisa in 1946, he served in the Italian army during World War II.