May 17, 1993 - August 12, 2025

Dear friends, 

Valentino Canzona, a beloved member of the Naples Center of the Fellowship of Friends, completed his task on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, in a head-on car collision, in which he died instantaneously.

Valentino was born on May 17, 1993, and joined the Fellowship in Naples, Italy, on November 2, 2020. He was 32 years old on his last birthday.

A friend from Italy writes, “Valentino was deeply devoted to the school, and gentle as the golden honey from the bees he lovingly tended, a sweetness that seemed to flow from his very soul.”

He will be missed.

On behalf of all who knew you, we give thanks. 

The Elysian Society

“Clearly understand that what pleases on earth is but a swift dream.”
– Petrarch

Petrarch also wrote of a friend who died suddenly:
“I had not considered the possibility of his being about to die.”