Lucio Quarantotto (29 April 1957 – 31 July 2012) was an Italian songwriter best known for writing the lyrics for "

Con te partirò "Con te partirò" (; "With You I Shall Depart") is an Italian song written by Francesco Sartori (music) and Lucio Quarantotto (lyrics). It was first performed by Andrea Bocelli at the 1995 Sanremo Music Festival and recorded on his album of the ...

" ("With you, I will leave"), to music composed by

Francesco Sartori Francesco Sartori (born 1957) is an Italian composer and piano and trumpet player. Works Sartori composed "Con te partirò" ("With you, I will leave") with Lucio Quarantotto for Andrea Bocelli. ''Con te partirò'' was also recorded by Jonas Kau ...

for

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. The song was also recorded as a duet entitled "Time to Say Goodbye" by Bocelli and

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Biography

Quarantotto also wrote the lyrics for "

Canto della Terra "Canto della Terra" is an Italian song which was the second single from Italian pop tenor Andrea Bocelli's 1999 album, ''Sogno''. The song was written by composer Francesco Sartori and lyricist Lucio Quarantotto, the same writers of Bocelli's bi ...

" and "Immenso", with music again by Sartori. Both were recorded by Bocelli in his 1999 album ''

Sogno ''Sogno'' ( en, Dream) is the fifth studio album by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. The album sold 2.5 million copies in the United States,

'' and "

Mille Lune Mille Onde "Mille Lune Mille Onde" is the second single from Italian pop tenor Andrea Bocelli's 2001 album, '' Cieli di Toscana''. The song was written by Francesco Sartori, Claudio Corradini and Lucio Quarantotto, the writers of Bocelli's "Con te partirò ...

", for his 2001 album '' Cieli di Toscana''. "Canto della Terra" was also later recorded as a duet between Bocelli and Brightman in 2007. Sartori and Quarantotto, working for

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, composed much of Bocelli's pop repertoire. Quarantotto committed suicide on 31 July 2012 by jumping from a window of his sixth-floor apartment.

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* 1957 births 2012 suicides Italian composers Italian male composers Suicides by jumping in Italy 20th-century Italian musicians 20th-century Italian male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub