Yesterday, a presentation of Piero Bassetti’s book took place at the Scipta Manent bookstore in the Principality of Monaco during a conference-debate for the presentation of the book “Svegliamoci italici”.
This presentation is part of the main events of the Italian Language and Culture Week (October 17-21). This event, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, takes place every year and presents Italy in a cultural context outside of Italy.
Piero Bassetti (1928), who was nicknamed the Milanese Kennedy in the 1960s, comes from an industrial family and graduated from Bocconi University in Milan, Cornell University, and the London School of Economics. He was one of the brightest politicians of his generation.
A member of the Christian Democracy party, he was a city councilor in Milan, a national deputy before holding the position of President of the powerful Milan Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Chambers of Commerce.
He was also a member of the CNEL (Economic and Social Council) and the Trilateral (the international association that brings together influential European, American, and Japanese personalities).
Founder and first president of the Union of Italian Chambers Abroad, he is currently the president of Globus&Locus, a think tank that works on the duality of the geopolitics of the future, both global and local.
His work, “Svegliamoci italici”, is a call to the Italian diaspora to create a common platform linked to language, traditions, and values that can play a role in the “mare magnum” of a world that will transcend the Nation-States.
