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BY MARIELLA RADAELLI LuminosityItalia.com As communities, business leaders and chambers of commerce continue to bridge the economies and cultures of China and Italy, one entrepreneur has shown what individual initiative can do. The festival is underway at Viale Sicilia through the holiday season. Photo: Fabrizio Radaelli Wen Long from Sichuan province has brought the first edition of the Chinese Lantern Festival to Monza. It opened on Oct. 1 and will continue to shine at Viale Sicilia throughout the holiday season. Wen said he fell in love with Italian culture when he was a kid. “After watching the movie Vacanze Romane, I realized that there was something magical about your culture,” he said at the Dec.18 Italy-China Exchange and Cooperation meeting in Monza, held at the offices of Confartigianato, Viale Stucchi 64. “In addition, historic characters such as Marco Polo and the Jesuit Matteo Ricci permeated my childhood,” he said. Local business leaders noted that exce

“When you meet a man who combines the impetuosity of a Norman, the fantasy of a Latin and the manual ability of a Levantine — while hiding the naive and disarming curiosity of an eternal child behind the grim face of a curly blond Calabrese brigand — maybe then you have known Michele Sangineto.” — Gabriele Abate, engineer By MARIELLA RADAELLI LuminosityItalia.com Michele and the viola organista he built based on the design of Leonardo da Vinci. Master luthier Michele Sangineto was born in Albidona in the province of Cosenza in 1944. His small hometown in the Calabria region of southern Italy was founded on the ruins of the ancient Grecian city Leutarnia. There Michele began to study art and later earned an art diploma in creative woodworking in the nearby town of Castrovillari. In the early 1970s Michele moved to Monza, a medieval city outside of Milan, where he began his exploration into the art of lutherie and the science of organology. Driven by a natural curiosity an

BY MARIELLA RADAELLI Luminosityitalia.com Smart family controlled businesses are the fabric of Italian economy. Ten were awarded the “Di Padre in Figlio- il gusto di fare impresa” prize on Nov 28 at the Palazzo Mezzanotte at Piazza Affari in Milan. Now in its sixth year, the honor is given to entrepreneurs in at least the second generation of a family business that has a registered office in Italy and revenues of more than 10 million euros. Run by N+1, Borsa Italiana, Banca Albertini SYZ S.p.A. and Deloitte, among the others, and supported by Milan and Monza Chamber of Commerce, the awards are well respected nationally as a celebration of individual and collective entrepreneurship that demonstrates how family businesses turn visions into reality. From almost 150 entries, an independent judging panel of business leaders narrowed the field to 45 finalists and finally 10 were awarded. But all this year’s finalists were notable for their distinctive character and passion as well as q