Discharged twice from the hospital with diagnoses of accumulated stress, she died of pulmonary edema. Letizia Ciampi, a 47-year-old Florentine, was found dead on January 2nd in a hotel room in Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands, Spain. She had arrived on a flight from Pisa on December 31st to celebrate New Year's Eve with a friend who was waiting for her on the Spanish island. Shortly after landing, according to Patrizia and Davide, two of the woman's friends who were alerted after her body was found, the 47-year-old reportedly "complained of chest pain and difficulty breathing." She then decided to go to the local emergency room for a check-up. After several tests, doctors diagnosed her with "accumulated stress," and discharged her, advising her to undergo lung tests upon her return to Italy, her friends say.
Upon returning to her B&B, the 47-year-old's condition had not improved: the pain persisted and her breathing became increasingly labored . Around 9:30 PM, after declining an invitation to her friend's New Year's Eve dinner, Letizia Ciampi called an ambulance and was taken to the emergency room for the second time.
"The doctors examined her again," the two friends explain, "but the diagnosis was the same. She was discharged again and returned home." Once back in her room, "she called her contact to let him know she was feeling persistently unwell," Davide says, "and then went to bed," forgoing their New Year's Eve dinner. At dawn on the first day of 2026, the friend tried to contact her. Receiving no response, he then decided "to visit her at her apartment," but, not knowing the owner, it took him "the whole of January 1st to find him."
The tragic discovery was made on Friday, January 2nd. The friend and the owner entered the B&B with the help of firefighters and found Letizia lifeless, lying in the fetal position on the bed with drops of blood on the sheets. "The doctors said it was pulmonary edema," explains her friend Patrizia. An autopsy will be performed tomorrow on the 47-year-old's body. Letizia, a sales representative, was well-known in Florence, also for her political involvement. Letizia's mother, who lives in Reggello, in the province of Florence, is devastated by the sudden death of her daughter: "I only had her; it was the two of us. My beloved daughter, I don't know how to move on."
(Unioneonline)
