In Memory of Professor Alessandro Finzi

[Pascual, Mariam]

Dear colleagues,

 

We have learned with great sadness of the death of Prof. Alessandro Finzi, and the World Rabbit Science Association (WRSA) wishes to express its profound sorrow and to convey its sincere condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy).

 

Prof. Finzi was a distinguished member of the WRSA since 2011 and a highly respected colleague whose scientific contributions and personal dedication left a lasting impact on our scientific community. He will be remembered with great esteem and gratitude.

 

Attached is a letter of condolence in memory of him, on behalf of the President and the ASIC Board.

 

Mariam Pascual

Animal Breeding and Genetics Programme (IRTA)

Secretary of the Spanish Association of Cuniculture (ASESCU)

President of the World Rabbit Science Association (WRSA)

 

+34 607 073 179

Torre Marimón, Caldes de Montbui (Barcelona)

 

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[Leandro Castilha]

Dear colleagues of WRSA

From Brazil, we express our condolences on the passing of Professor Alessandro Finzi.

Sincerely yours,

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[Agustín Blasco Mateu]

Professor Alessandro Finzi, Sandro, was a good friend of mine. We were colleagues at the FAO in 1997-98 and frequently discussed various topics. He was a cultured man and a great composer of haiku, short Japanese poems. He had extensive experience in developing countries; he knew their strengths and weaknesses intimately, offering original solutions for rabbit production, based primarily on intuition and common sense. Sandro constantly had original ideas; I must admit that his main problem was the sheer number of ideas he generated per unit of time; we couldn't develop most of them because a new one always arose. He was also an athlete; a friend of mine, a colleague of his in Viterbo, told me that he swam across the Suez Canal.

He was a distinguished member of the WRSA long before 2011; he was president of the WRSA between 1984 and 1988, if I remember correctly. He was one of the first scientists in the modern world of rabbit production, with publications on rabbit nutrition dating back to at least 1964 (over 60 years ago!). He remained active throughout his life; he attended the ASESCU congress in 2023, the last time I saw him, when he was 92 years old.

I join the board in expressing my condolences.

Agustin Blasco

President of the WRSA 2000-2004

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Agustin Blasco

Professor of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Institute for Animal Science and Technology

Universitat Politècnica de València

P.O. Box 22012. Valencia 46022. Spain

Phone: +34 630157450

Web: http://dca.webs.upv.es/dcia/ablasco

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