title: 2009 in Italy
text: # 2009 in Italy
  
  Events of 2009 in Italy.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Giorgio Napolitano
  * Prime Minister: Silvio Berlusconi
  
  ## Silvio Berlusconi controversies
  
  Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is involved in several controversies in relation to his career and personal life.
  
  ## Trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito
  
  Knox and Sollecito were tried for and convicted of the Murder of Meredith Kercher.
  
  ## L'Aquila earthquake
  
  A major earthquake occurred in Abruzzo on 6 April, killing about 300 people.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 8 January – Flavio Orlandi, politician (born 1921)
  * 11 January – Pio Laghi, Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1922)
  * 9 February – Eluana Englaro, right-to-die patient (born 1970)
  * 13 May – Achille Compagnoni, mountaineer (born 1914)
  * 6 August – Riccardo Cassin, mountaineer (born 1909)
  * 8 September – Mike Bongiorno, television personality (born 1924)
  * 20 November – Lino Lacedelli, mountaineer (born 1925)
  