An Italian couple who have both
changed sex are set to wed at Recanati, the Marche home town of
Italy's great Romantic poet Giacomo Leopardi.
Newly minted man Emanuele Loati, 25, and his formerly male bride
Maura Nardi, 41, told their story to Il Resto del Carlino and
Radio Erre.
Maura has been blind since the age of 19 due to a retinal
disease and works as a switchboard operator for a public agency.
"My colleagues, friends and co-citizens backed me in my process
of transition which started in 2018," she said.
Emanuele said he had been encouraged by his then fiancée's
experience and had started his own transition shortly
afterwards.
News of the wedding has met with acceptance and respect in the
small Marche hilltown where the famed and short-lived pessimist
poet and philosopher was born in 1798, before his untimely death
in Naples in 1837.
"We have all greeted this decision with pleasure, and there has
been no prejudice," Recanati Mayor Antonio Bravi told the Resto
newspaper.
"If they decide to celebrate their wedding in the municipal
offices I will marry them with immense pleasure.
"We are a community open to all situations, a city of culture
that keeps up with change".
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