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In 2019, Italian director Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli, known for extravagant productions like the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, died in Rome at the age of 96. #FrancoZeffirelli

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In 1923, Franco Zeffirelli was born Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli in the outskirts of Florence, Tuscany, Italy, after an affair between Florentine Alaide Garosi, a fashion designer, and Ottorino Corsi, a wool and silk dealer from Vinci. Since both were married, Alaide was unable to use her surname or Corsi’s for her child. She came up with “Zeffiretti”, which are the “little breezes” mentioned in Mozart’s opera Idomeneo.  However, it was misspelt in the register and became Zeffirelli. #FrancoZeffirelli

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