The osteoarthritis in her hands which in recent times had forced her to give up her beloved sweets. Those he had prepared for a lifetime, for the happiness of entire generations of Quartesi.

He had baked the last pan a year ago: Gesuina Ibba passed away yesterday at the age of 95.

He had transformed candelaus and pastissus, gueffus and pirichittus into works of art. She never stopped in the laboratory of her house in the historic centre : «It was an exceptional testimony of life», says her nephew Andrea Ibba, son of the confectioner's brother. «My sister who was her goddaughter, watched over her until the end».

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