(ANSA) - MONTOPOLI IN VAL D'ARNO, DECEMBER 10 - The embrace between Frances Avery Howe, widow of Giovannino Alberto Agnelli (1964-1997), and the historic butler Massimo Bonfanti loosens up the ritual of the event a little and makes the ceremony in Montopoli Valdarno (Pisa), 25 years after the entrepreneur's death, a sort of family celebration.
The small town in Pisano this morning recalled with a public meeting the man and entrepreneur who led Piaggio from 1993 until his death on 13 December 1997.
Part of the Agnelli family met in the small town, his wife Frances Avery Howe Agnelli, daughter Virginia Asia Agnelli,
A trip to the other side of the world to return to the place of summer holidays, the Villa di Varramista, and of life in recent years, during the Piaggio presidency, the motorcycle industry which has factories in nearby Pontedera.
Men and women from the institutions alternate on the stage but also the childhood friends of Giovannino, the heirloom of the Agnelli house, destined to succeed his uncle Gianni at the top of the Fiat group.
And then the men and women who worked at the Varramista farm.
At the microphone also the memory of the governor of Tuscany Eugenio Giani who in 1993 as councilor for mobility in Florence met the then president of Piaggio directly.
"He really moved me - said Avery Howe receiving a floral tribute from the mayor of Montopoli,