Emma Morano

Emma Martina Luigia Morano-Martinuzzi (born 29 November, 1899) is the oldest living person in Italy and Europe since the death of Maria Redaelli and seventh oldest verified living person in the world.She is the last surviving Italian person born before 1900.

Biography
Emma Martina Luigia Morano was the eldest of the eight (5 daughters,3 sons) children born to Giovanni Morano and Matilde Bresciani on 29 November 1899 in Civiasco in the Province of Vercelli in Italy.When she was a child, she moved from the Sesia Valley to Ossola for her father's job, but the climate was unhealthy there,so a physician advised her family to live somewhere with a milder climate so the family moved to Pallanza, on Lake Maggiore, where Morano still Lives.Her mother and aunt, and some of her siblings reached age 90,and her sister Angela Morano (1908- 2011) died at 102,Angela and Emma were the oldest living siblings in Italy until Angela died.She then married Giovani Martinuzzi (1901 - 1978) in 1926,when she was 27 and he was 25.They had a son in 1937,but he unfortunatley he died six months after birth.The marriage wasn't happy,in 1938 she drove her husband out of the house and they seperated but were married till his death.

Current Life
Morano is a clear headed,jovial and humourus person.She lives independently in her house alone,and takes care of her and the house herself.She said she never takes drugs,eats 3 eggs a day and drinks a glass of homemade brandy.