Editing Delia Scala (section)

==Personal life==
Scala achieved great professional success, but her personal life was marred by misfortune and tragedy. In 1946, at the age 17, she married a Greek military officer who had come to Italy to join the partisan forces in the fight against the Nazi-fascists. They separated two years later, and she got the marriage voided in 1956.

During the mid-1950s Scala was engaged with [[Formula One]] race car driver [[Eugenio Castellotti]]. He died in 1957 when his [[Ferrari]] crashed while attempting a speed record at the [[Modena]] race track.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.formulapassion.it/motorsport/storia/f1-eugenio-castellotti-con-le-corse-nel-sangue-14551.html|title=Eugenio Castellotti: Con le corse nel sangue|date=2 January 2013 |quote=Nei primi mesi del 1957 il nome di Castellotti compare sui giornali non-per le sue imprese sportive, ma per la sua discussa relazione con la soubrette Delia Scala|language=it|publisher=archivio.unita.news|accessdate=9 September 2019}}</ref>

In 1967 she married Piero Giannotti.The marriage lasted until 1982 when Giannotti died of a heart attack while cycling along the beach in [[Viareggio]]. She married a third time in 1985 with industrialist Arturo Fremura. The marriage ended with her husband's death of liver cancer in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768742/bio|title=Delia Scala|publisher=IMDb|access-date=27 September 2019}}</ref>

In 1974 Delia Scala was diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent a radical [[mastectomy]]. Although she appeared to have made a full recovery, in 2002 she was struck again with the same illness. Scala died in 2004 in [[Livorno]], Tuscany. She rests in the Cimitero della Misericordia in Livorno.

At the time of her death, Italian President [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]] called her a "model of enthusiasm and rigorous professionalism" and said he rated her among ''"the most beloved and popular artists in the history of Italian entertainment"''.