Monica Vitti, one of Italy’s most beloved actresses, celebrated for both her wit and beauty and famed as the muse of Michelangelo Antonioni, died aged 90. “Goodbye Monica Vitti, goodbye queen of Italian cinema. Today is a truly sad day, we have lost a great artist and a great Italian,” Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said Wednesday. Vitti shot to international fame with the 1960 drama L’Avventura in which she plays a tormented woman who dallies with the lover of her missing friend.
