Departures of note

Silvia Monti (born Silvia Cornacchia on 23 January 1946 in Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, Italy) began her film career in 1969 with a small role in Alberto Lattuada’s *Fräulein Doktor*. Over the next few years she appeared in a series of popular Italian genre films, including *The Brain* (1969), *A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin* (1971), *A Lizard the Black Corsair* (1971), *The Fifth Cord* (1971) and *Finché c’è guerra c’è speranza* (1974) with Alberto Sordi. In 1974, at the height of her popularity, Monti chose to retire from acting to focus on her family. She married the Venetian count Luigi Donà dalle Rose, with whom she had two children; the couple separated in 1994. On 10 July 1997 she married Italian industrialist Carlo De Benedetti, moving with him to Lugano, Switzerland. Monti lived in Switzerland for the remainder of her life and died there on 12 August 2026 at the age of 80.