Professor Luciano Buzzetti
On 8th March 2006 Luciano Buzzetti died after a brief and severe illness; aged only 62, he left a wife and three sons.
He took his Doctor's degree in Economic Science at the Catholic University of Milan, where he started his postgraduate career in 1971.
Always keeping in contact with his first University, he later took up a position teaching Economic Geography in Trieste, then in Trento, where he became Head of the Faculty of Economic Science.
Along with a deep interest in several fields of economy, he really loved the mountains, and used to spend long periods of study in the Alps, particularly in the eastern sector of the chain.
He dedicated a great deal of time to the methodology of Geography teaching, and he became chair of a regional Section of the Associazione Italiana Insegnanti di Geografia, and was a long-serving member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Italian Geographers, as well as of the Società Geografica Italiana: in both cases he was appointed as Vice-President.
He was among the pioneers who founded EUGEO, the European Association of Geographical entities and (of particular importance for the writer), he was a member of the Villa Celimontana Executive Committee from 2000 to 2005. I like to remember him in this role, and full of life, as seen in the photo taken during the first days of the Home of Geography: easily recognizable by his red tie, he is standing behind IGU's President at the time, Anne Buttimer, to the right of the current President, Adalberto Vallega.



giuliano bellezza, 16th march 2006