Italian Philology professor and writer Marianna Ditsa, for whom Dionysis Savvopoulos wrote the song “Synnefoula” in 1966 on the album “Fortigo”, has passed away.

Marianna Ditsa was the wife of Angelos Elefantis, founder and director of the post-colonial socio-political reflection magazine “The Citizen”.

“This morning we said goodbye to our dear friend Marianna Ditsa, our Mimika, the “Synnefoula” of the times that gave birth to bold poets, the Thessalonian noblewoman who lit fires in her diava, university student, neo-Hellenist, partner for years of the leading intellectual of the Left Angelos Elefanti, founder and director of the emblematic magazine of post-colonial socio-political reflection “the citizen”, brave woman, bohemian and aristocratic finna. Farewell, my good friend! I will set a glass still full at my feasts, my Marianna, to remember you, in our snacks and in your greatness, the time of your dazzling charm, when, as a student, I first met you!” wrote the writer Thomas Korovinis in his farewell.