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ALBERTO PUCCI DI BENISICHI
Alberto Pucci di Benesichi was a descendent of a Florentine family that had already gained fame and respectability in the XIIIth century. He was a man who was highly unique in the way he dealt with life. He reminded people of the great Leopard in “Il Gattopardo”, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s famous classic story set in Sicily. He was endowed with acute intelligence and had an almost life-giving desire to manage things and people. He was a man who was most certainly not conventional, supremely indifferent to the ways of the world. He never followed fads or fashions. If anything, he was responsible for them. He was deeply tied to tradition, to his past, to his beloved Petralia Sottana, to his origins, to his countryside, to his roots. He had a total loathing for modernity (or rather, for certain types of modernity). He was a collector and collected everything that came his way (pre-philatelic letters, goblets and ciboria, globes, old keys, maiolica pottery, figures from antique cribs). He lived surrounded by his objects. He bought and sold books and antique prints. He was a tough negotiator and tired out any potential purchaser. He was flame that burned through the southern Sicilian nights.
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