Notes from the Summer Aperitivo
The terrace at Palazzo Colonna holds sixty comfortably and eighty badly, so we kept to sixty. Conversations ranged from restitution law to the economics of olive oil. Two collaborations were reported to us within the week.
Why Rome, now
For twenty years the story of Rome was told as decline. That story is out of date. New research institutes, a returning generation of graduates and a cost of living far below Paris or London have made the city plausible again for ambitious work. What remains missing is the connective tissue: the dinners, the introductions, […]
A year of the society
In our first year we held fourteen gatherings, from library lectures to long dinners in private homes. Members came from nine countries and more than thirty universities. What they shared was less a credential than a disposition: curiosity, generosity, and a willingness to show up.
In conversation with Elena Marini
Elena Marini moved to Rome in 2016 after a decade in California. She has since founded two companies and invested in a dozen more, most of them run by women. “I think people underestimate how much of a career is simply proximity,” she says. “You meet someone at a dinner, and four years later that […]