The Magnificent Rector of the Catholic University of Milan died yesterday evening Franco Anelli, 60 years old, well-known jurist and lawyer. This is what we read in a note from the University Institute itself. “With deep dismay, the community of the Catholic University and the Agostino Gemelli IRCCS University Polyclinic Foundation, to which he dedicated his work and his entire life, gathers together in mourning and prayer, expressing the deepest condolences to his mother and his loved ones”, is highlighted in the press release. Anelli would have voluntarily taken his own life. The reasons for the suicide are not yet known. The lifeless body of jurist it was found in the internal courtyard of the building where he lived in the center of Milan. The most accepted hypothesis is that he threw himself from the sixth floor of his apartment. The medical examiner ruled out signs of violence and the intervention of third parties. 118 was unable to do anything other than confirm that he had died due to the impact on the ground.
His career
Anelli was in his third term as Rector of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; he took office in 2013. After graduating from the “Respighi” scientific high school in Piacenza, he graduated in Law from the Catholic University of Milan. In 1998 he became a Supreme Court judge after obtaining a PhD in commercial law and the exam for admission to the bar. He first taught civil law in the Piacenza branch of the Catholic University, subsequently, after his appointment as Rector, he began to follow the course on Institutions of Private Law in Milan. On May 13, 2022 he was appointed by Pope francesco consultant to the Congregation for Catholic Education.
The monographs
Author of several monographs and dozens of articles in the field of civil law. He was associate professor of Private Law Institutions at the Faculty of Economics and Business in 1993, and then extraordinary professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Parma in 1996. Furthermore, he was vice-president of the E4Impact Foundation, and among the members of the Board of Directors of the “A. Gemelli” IRCCS and “Avvenire Nuova Editoriale Italiana SpA” Professor Anelli was the eighth Rector in the history of the University founded by Father Gemelli in 1921.
From the foundation to today, Father Agostino Gemelli (1921-1959), Francesco Vito (1959-1965), Ezio Franceschini (1965-1968), Giuseppe Lazzati (1968-1983), Adriano Bausola (1983-1998) have held the position. , Sergio Zaninelli (1998-2002), Lorenzo Ornaghi (2002 -2012).
