Italian actress Monica Vitti, best known for her roles in films by Michelangelo Antonioni, who also starred with French actor Alain Delon in the 1960s and won several international cinema awards, has died aged 90.
"Goodbye Monica Vitti, goodbye queen of Italian cinema. Today is a truly sad day, we have lost a great artist and a great Italian," Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said in a statement.