Italy mourns Napolitano with State funeral

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 26 - Italy on Tuesday mourns Giorgio Napolitano, the nation's first two-time president who died aged 98 in Rome on Friday, with a non-religious State funeral in the Lower House.
    French President Emmanuel Macron and German President Frank Walter Steinmeier are among the officials attending.
    Napolitano's son Giulio, biblical scholar Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, European Commissioner for Economic Affairs and former Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni, former Italian Premier and expert in constitutional law Giuliano Amato and former magistrate and centre-left politician Anna Finocchiaro are among the figures slated to speak during the funeral.
    Two big screens have been set up in Piazza Montecitorio outside the Lower House so the public can follow the funeral.
    All flags on public buildings and on Italian diplomatic and consular representations abroad were being flown at half mast until the day of the funeral, which has been declared a day of national mourning.
    Napolitano will be buried in Rome's Non-Catholic Cemetery.
    English poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Russian painter Karl Briullov and Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci are also buried there. (ANSA).