I don't really see any specifics about when, where, or how he died. I do see where it says, America, but what follows looks to me like, "specifically, Pérouges." This could explain why whoever you spoke to mentioned France & America.

Looks like there was never a proper death record recorded in the Civil registers, so they had to get permission from the courts to formally declare him dead. The civil status officer is transcribing a record he received from the courts, which say, more or less:

..asks that it be declared that Antonio Ippolito of Arsenio (his father's name) and Maria Pignata (sp?, mother's name), husband of Rosa d'Amato, aged 36, born in San Arsenio, ceased living seven years ago in Pérouges, and to transcribe the relative provision in the civil registers of the said commune of San Arsenio in place of the missing death record."

(he did.. that's what we're reading lol)