By Agnese Renzi, Emanuela Gentiloni, Who is the new first lady – Time

The new first lady is called Emanuela Mauro, is an architect and shares with her husband, a noble of ancient lineage, the aristocratic pastime of hiking in the mountains. If Agnese Renzi has heard very little, the lady Customers, probably, you hear about even less: an individual, discrete, and definitely not a lover of the high life, as the wife.

the age of 62 years, roman, Paolo Gentiloni Silveri is blue blood, his noble origins are rooted in the Marche, between Macerata, Cingoli, Filottrano and Tolentino. In the latter town, one of the most affected by the earthquake of last October, Gentiloni has received, in June, the honorary citizenship. And there is a family palace that hosted, during the year 1848, Giuseppe Garibaldi who was passing, and there he toasted the arrival of the new year, welcomed by the count Domenico Silverj, guardia noble pontificia but that turned the sympathies of the liberal,. The surname of the Chairman of the Board in charge is related, then, at a critical moment in the history of the country: the famous “the Pact Gentiloni“.

In 1912, the Electoral Union of Italian Catholic, founded by Count Vincenzo Ottorino Gentiloni (the ancestor of Paul), he made a deal with the liberal Giovanni Giolitti. Was passed, with the consent of Pope Pius X, the prohibition of catholics to participate in elections. In practice, on the basis of this agreement that was never formalized, the liberals yielded to the catholics of part of their colleges, to beat the socialists. A species of “broad agreement” election, in other words.

The catholic character of the family is reflected in the training of the young Paul, who as a teenager he taught catechism to elementary kids since when, as a student of the Rate, he began his approach in the movements of the left, the first to give life to as many, in the '80s, to a commitment to the ecologist. His interest in nature and the specificity of the territory is also proved by the friendship with Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food with which shares the passion for the peculiarities food and wine of our Country.

a Little mundane, in 1988, Gentiloni bride Emanuela Mauro, architect and former scout. They do not have children. What brings them together is the passion for holidays in the mountains, but divides them refractoriness mopeds him in front of a at ease on two wheels on her. On the sporting side, Gentiloni is fan of Juventus and a lover of tennis. These days, in the numerous interviews of his colleagues in the political track, there has emerged a note “of color”: in the two times that Rutelli ran to the Capitol, on the morning of the municipal elections, in a kind of superstitions, met on the tennis court, the former mayor of Rome, the present premier in charge, Ermete Realacci and Grain Head. The custom, however, was interrupted in the unlikely candidacy of Rutelli to premier in 2001.