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...weeks later they staged a wedding that reflected their artistic interests at the Castello di Montegufoni, a castle in the Tuscan countryside. Sixty guests stayed in the castle for a week, during which friends and family joined the couple in reciting poetry and enacting scenes from The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th century collection of fables, in the castle's theater. On the wedding day, Quirk's brother, a drummer, led the processional through the grounds while guests banged along on pots and pans. When they reached a hilltop olive grove, the guests formed a circle around the couple...
...Barilla family--whose pasta and bread company, based in Parma, Italy, dates back to 1877--hit a big snag in the early 1970s, when the third generation of family managers--brothers Pietro and Giovanni--quarreled and sold the business to W.R. Grace of the U.S. In 1979, however, Pietro bought back a majority stake, this time on his own, and started the company on a rapid expansion course. By 1993, when he died, Barilla produced 35% of the pasta sold in Italy. Now his three sons--Guido, Luca and Paolo--and their sister Emanuela are pushing aggressively into international markets...
...Agnelli GIOVANNI AGNELLI...
...When Giovanni Agnelli died in January at age 81, all Italy mourned the passing of a legend. Handsome, dashing and impeccably connected, he personified Italy's growing postwar affluence. But by the end of his life, his family's affairs were a mess. In the two months since his death, his brother Umberto, 68, has stepped out of the shadows and is moving swiftly to realign management and shore up the finances of the Agnellis' prize asset, the 104-year-old automaker Fiat, which posted a $4.6 billion loss last year...
...Agnelli family long ago moved to diversify its wealth into stakes in such companies as Club Med and Danone, the world's biggest yogurt manufacturer. Whether or not Umberto succeeds in rescuing Fiat, the Agnellis face a vexing succession issue: there is no heir in the next generation. Giovanni's only son Edoardo killed himself two years ago, and Umberto's son Giovanni Alberto, who was being groomed as the successor, died of cancer in 1997. The burden of securing the family's financial future will probably fall to Giovanni's U.S.-born grandson John Elkann, who is just...