They were living “The Good Life.” Tony Bennett’s widow and longtime love, Susan Benedetto, shared memories of the couple’s romantic trips to Italy — alongside an exclusive new photo of the crooner — in a new interview with People. Bennett died on Friday, at the age of 96. “Tony, naturally, loved visiting his ancestral homeland, and we spent many summers in Italy over the years,” Benedetto, 56, told a reporter.

“It was always a special time for us to be together, just the two of us,” she fondly recalled. “Tony would paint all day, and then we would eat pasta, which was his favorite meal … Everyone knows Tony had heart, but he also was a wonderful soul,” she said of the “Cheek to Cheek” singer. She noted that her surname, Benedetto, is Bennett’s original family name — and that it means “the blessed one” in his mother tongue, Italian.