Franca Pilla (or Franca Ciampi; born 19 December 1920) is the former first lady of Italy, when Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was president of Italy from 1999 to 2006.

[1] She was in education when she was eighteen and there she met her future husband who was of the same age.

The tea was organised by mothers, and boys and girls would be allowed to practise dancing with each other.

[2] After the war when her boyfriend had been a soldier and then a resistance fighter, they had a year's engagement and then they married in Bologna when she was 25.

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