Conti was born to a Swiss Italian father, Silvio, and a German mother, Nanna Pauli, in Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland; his mother later became the Reich Midwifery Leader in Nazi Germany.
The University of Lugano is the major university of Italian Switzerland.
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Swiss Italian is spoken as natively by about 350,000 people in the canton of Ticino and in the southern part of Graubünden (Canton Grigioni).
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The municipality is located near the Swiss–Italian border south of the Mera River in the Val Bregaglia (known as Bergell in German).
Kiel's hobby was mountaineering and at age 60, he climbed Europe's second highest peak, the Monte Rosa, on the Swiss-Italian border.
This Pre-Roman dialect (the Swiss Rhaetian or Raetia) is one of four official languages of Switzerland by the Swiss German, Swiss Italian and Swiss French.