The news of Napolitano's death goes around the world

The news of Giorgio Napolitano's death spread around the world in a few minutes, and from China to America, many newspapers and media outlets published his biography or a commentary on the political and economic legacy he left behind.

Here are just a few of the headlines and key passages: "Giorgio Napolitano, the former Italian president and ex-Communist who helped restore market confidence in the country's finances in 2011 during the European sovereign debt crisis, has died. He was 98."

This is what was written in a tweet by Bloomberg Politics, Washington edition. Reuters and the Associated Press promptly reported the news. And AP in particular, on its website, described him as "the first former communist to become president of the Italian Republic and the first person to be elected twice to the office."

New York Times World, the global news Twitter account of the NYT, frames his role as a savior of the country and "a pillar of post-communist Italy": "Giorgio Napolitano, modern Italy's longest-serving president, who orchestrated the transfer of power from scandal-ridden Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to a little-known economist and saved his nation from the brink of collapse, has died at 98."

And in the article, the American newspaper quotes the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, "who stated in a statement that Napolitano's life 'reflects much of the history of the second half of the 900th century, with its dramas, its complexity, its goals and its hopes.'"

"Former President of the Republic and Senator for Life Giorgio Napolitano has died at the age of 98," writes United News of India. Meanwhile, in China, the main newspaper, the People's Daily, tweeted: "Giorgio Napolitano, Italy's longest-serving president of the modern era, from 2006 to 2015, has died in Rome at the age of 98."

The newspaper is an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In reporting the news in Russia, the state agency RIA Novosti cited RaiNews24 as its source and noted that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and former Prime Minister Mario Draghi expressed their condolences on his death.

While the main Russian opinion newspaper Kommersant dedicates a short biography to him where all the key moments are recalled: from his university studies, to his first contacts with the Communist Party and then his long political career.

"Giorgio Napolitano, the communist who became the monarch of the Italian Republic" is the headline of the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia, which immediately opens with the death of the former president, recalling that he was the first to be elected twice to the Quirinale.

"The first two-term president," according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, which dedicates a lengthy article to Napolitano's passing, also recalling his long political career as Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, minister, and senator before his appointment to the Quirinale. "A symbol of longevity and political stability, nine years at the helm of the state," the French newspaper Le Monde thus commemorates President Emeritus Giorgio Napolitano, calling him "a tireless militant who came from communism."