“Painful sadness and sorrow. This is what I feel now. However, if I think about you, a smile comes up to my face. You have been a teacher and friend to me. I think that one of your greatest merits was “sharing” thoughts, ideas, techniques. And you did that with the enthusiasm of a passionate pioneer and the humility of the true Greats. Today we are Cesare. And since you never really liked the English version: “ciao Cesare. Resti nei nostri cuori di amici e nelle nostre mani e pensieri di chirurghi. Un abbraccio”

— Barbara Parolini, Italy

“The 6th Thessaloniki International Vitreo-Retinal Summer School dedicates their „course to our co-organizer, dear friend and great teacher Cesare Forlini. His unexpected loss left a huge gap to our Mediterretina Society. We will never remove his smile from our speaker’s list.”

— Athanasios Nikolakopoulos, Greece

The South-East Ophthalmological Society expresses its deepest condolences for the loss of one of the greatest ophthalmologist of our time and the respected foundation board member Cesare Forlini. Rest in Peace…