You can't say no to the heart. Giulio Sapelli, volcanic economic historian, intellectual and academic of race, author of hundreds of books and two years ago on the brink of becoming prime minister, got married on Saturday morning in Milan in the Church of San Marco, a stone's throw from Brera and from the headquarters of the Corriere della Sera.
Sapelli, 72, from Turin, is on his third marriage. The bride, Claudia Sonino, is a brilliant Germanist who teaches German literature at the University of Pavia. The wedding crowns a long and passionate love story.
After the wedding, the couple hosted a wedding lunch in the renowned Rigolo restaurant, where Indro Montanelli always had a table reserved for him.
Among the guests present, in addition to professionals, academics, men of culture and journalists, were the former Minister of the Treasury, Domenico Siniscalco, now vice president and country manager for Italy of Morgan Stanley, the former Unicredit and Carige banker, Pietro Modiano, the former president of Snam Alberto Meomartini, the president of the Subsidiarity Fund and one of the founders of CL, Giorgio Vittadini, the general secretary of Assopopolari, Giuseppe De Lucia Lumeno, the banker Alessandro Gumier, head of the Global Banking division of Societè Generale, the manager Alessandra Genco, Leonardo's CFO, the editor and essayist Arnoldo Mosca Mondadori, the founder of the new publishing start-up goWare, Mario Mancini, and the philosopher Davide Assael, president of the Lech Lecha Association.
In thanking all those present, Sapelli did not hide his emotion and confessed that “Olivetti, Eni and Claudia have been and are the three great passions of my life”.
