Most extraordinary obituary you’ll read this week
This obituary of the ‘package holiday boom’s most famous Latin lover’ is just extraordinary stuff.
And just in case that’s tricky to read …
Maurizio ‘Zanza” Zanfanti, who has died aged 62 while in flagrante, was the most famous Latin lover of the package holiday boom in Italy, of which the epicentre was his home town Rimini.
In his prime, women queued up to be seduced by him and according to legend he slept with thousands of them.
He died of a heart attack at around two in the morning in his Mitsubishi Pajero 4×4, parked in a small peach grove owned by his family, seconds after making love with a 25-year-old Romanian woman, who raised the alarm.
Maurizio Zanfanti was born on October 20 1955 into a family of poor peasant farmers who lived near Rimini on the Adriatic coast. Italy was still a largely agricultural country, devastated…’
And here are just a few of the things people were saying online.
Are we certain this isn’t the plot to a limerick?
— Aled Lewis (@Aled) October 5, 2018
Maurizio "Zanza" Zanfanti
Died aged 62 in flagrante
Of cardiac arrest
Doing what he did best
in Rimini, east of Chianti— David Allsopp (@doublehelix) October 5, 2018
Died in Flagrante, eh? Is that near Benidorm?
— Simon #FBPE 🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@Mirthematician) October 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/MattGarrahan/status/1048123016671113216
RIP Zanza.