ROME – World leaders paid tribute Saturday to former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, who died on Friday at age 98. The state funeral of the former head of state and Communist party leader was to be held Tuesday, the Quirinal Palace said.
Napolitano died at the private Salvator Mundi clinic in Rome and his body was to be laid out at Palazzo Madama, the building housing the Senate, for Italians to pay their last respects to him. The day of his funeral Tuesday was designated as a day of national mourning.
