<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: bold;">A <a href="http://cafebabel.com/" target="_blank">cafebabel.com</a> correspondent since autumn 2005, Ilaria has left us at the age of thirty. It happened on 17 March in a blaze of desperation or courage, leaving her friends and family immersed in grief. Her life was full of activism, the latter being channelled predominantly through the medium of journalism. But Ilaria La Commare was not only a journalist. She was also an accomplished writer and a fine poet. </p>