Italy mourns Oscar-winning composer Luis Bacalov

(ANSA) - Rome, November 16 - Italy is mourning Oscar-winning composure Luis Enrique Bacalov, who died on Wednesday at the age of 84.
    Bacalov won the 1996 Best Music Oscar for his score for Il Postino, a bittersweet comedy about a fictional relationship between an Italian postman and Pablo Neruda.
    It starred and was written by Italian comedian Massimo Troisi, who died shortly after it was made. Argentine-born Bacalov had lived in Italy since 1959 and was a naturalised Italian.