She died this morning, after a long illness faced with great courage, Rossella Bocciarelli, for many years fine journalist of the Sole 24 Ore with a focus on the activities of the Bank of Italy but also on banks and the macroeconomy.
Rossella, who had a mild and sunny character but also great determination, had graduated in Economics from the La Sapienza University of Rome where she had acquired a very solid economic background. But her passion was journalism and for this reason, after her debut at Il Globo, she arrived in the early 80s at the weekly Mondo Economico, where she met and then married Mario Calderoni, current press manager of the Parliamentary Budget Office after being sent first to Panorama and then to the Sun.
After the experience at Mondo Economico, Rossella moved on to Il Sole 24 Ore where – except for a parenthesis at L'Espresso – she continued to write until the last few days. On April 20, you wrote an acute analysis entitled "Why the pandemic will do terrible harm to the world economy".
Highly esteemed in the Bank of Italy, Rossella had written a wonderful book about "Italian writers on economics" about ten years ago together with the then Deputy Director Pierluigi Ciocca.
Rossella will be missed by her family but also by all those who knew her and she will be missed by the readers who have been able to appreciate her over the years.
Rossella Bocciarelli's funeral will take place on Thursday 18 June at 11 at the church of San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura, in Piazzale del Verano.
FIRSTonline's most sincere condolences go to Mario and his daughter Silvia.
