"Gianni Agnelli" 2007
$1,200
KISSENGER, Henry [introduzione di]
[238] pp.
Rizzoli
Text in Italian
2007
9 1/2" x 9 1/4"
VG/ VG
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An illustrated biography of the personal world of Gianni Agnelli - one of the great personalities of the economic and social history of twentieth-century Italy.
The images, mostly taken from family albums, and text, collected from his writings and interviews, reconstruct his long journey that winds through family relations (i.e. with his grandfather, the founder of Fiat), business affiliations, his passion for the sea, skiing and art, the war years, social life and most of all his sense of duty to Italy, Europe and all of mankind.
Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI OML OMCA CGVM CMG (12 March 1921 – 24 January 2003), nicknamed L'Avvocato ("The Lawyer"), was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research. He was the richest man in modern Italian history.
Agnelli was regarded as having an impeccable and slightly eccentric fashion sense, which has influenced both Italian and international men's fashion. Agnelli was awarded the decoration Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1967 and the Order of Merit for Labour (Cavaliere del lavoro) in 1977. Following his death in 2003, control of the firm was gradually passed to his grandson and chosen heir, John Elkann.