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Franco Zazzeri was born in Florence on 19 August 1938. He spent his childhood in Monte San Savino, Arezzo. At the age of fourteen he began working in a ceramics workshop but, fascinated by sculpture, he moved to Arezzo where he worked for a local marble worker and attended the Arezzo art school under the guidance of the sculptor Giovanni Bianchi. Read the full biography

Franco Zazzeri was born in Florence on 19 August 1938. He spent his childhood in Monte San Savino, Arezzo. At the age of fourteen he began working in a ceramics workshop but, fascinated by sculpture, he moved to Arezzo where he worked for a local marble worker and attended the Arezzo art school under the guidance of the sculptor Giovanni Bianchi. At the end of the 1950s he won the competition for the creation of the statue of the Madonna delle Vertighe (patron saint of the Autostrada del Sole). In 1960 he moved to Milan (where he currently lives and works). In the same year he graduated from the Castello Sforzesco school in the sculpture section.