Italy's prime minister Paolo Gentiloni on Thursday paid tribute to the "exemplary" young Italian woman who died in the truck attack on a popular Christmas market in Berlin.
"Italy remembers its exemplary citizen Fabrizia Di Lorenzo, who was killed by terrorists," Gentiloni tweeted.
"The country is moved and unites around her family's grief," the tweet added.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella also voiced sorrow at Di Lorenzo's death, deploring the truck attack that killed her.
"The pain at her passing is great. Once again, a young compatriot abroad is the victim of senseless and odious terrorist violence," he said in a statement.
Earlier, interior minister Angelino Alfano said that 31-year-old Di Lorenzo was among the 12 people killed at Berlin's Breitscheidplatz market in Monday, allegedly by a Tunisian jihadist who then fled from the truck.
Di Lorenzo's death in the attack was confirmed after her family travelled to Berlin to give DNA samples.
The native of Sulmona in the Abruzzo region had been living in Berlin since 2013, where she worked for a German transport company.
Di Lorenzo studied for a Batchelors degree at the University of Rome La Sapienza and the University of Bologna before obtaining her Masters degree from Milan's Universita Cattolica.
Another young Italian woman, 28-year-old PhD student Valeria Solesin, was among the 130 victims of the November 2015 attacks in Paris claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.
