The good news was announced in January 2001 on the 'Espresso'. Farewell circles of yore, those with togethers once a month, with members bound together by strong habits, easy harmonies that were translated into talks which could dipendere il mondo, o, almeno la parte del medesimo più a portata di mano. No, d'ora in poi nessun bisogno di maggiordomi assidui, regole sconvolgenti come il divieto ai telefonini e, tantomeno, di appuntamenti inevitabilmente difficili da rispettare. Tutto in rete. A distanza. A qualunque ora. Era nato Retronet: «L'ultimo club vip della new economy. Quindici soci fondatori, una sede più virtuale che reale... L'obiettivo di unire in un solo gruppo i primi animatori del web italiano». Nove anni dopo, di Retronet si sono perse le tracce.È l'epoca dei social network, dall'universale Facebook a Odnoklassniki che pare funzioni solo in Azerbaijan, tutti impegnati a infrangere la barriera del numero di Dunbar, quella che fisserebbe a 150 persone il massimo possibile di una rete sociale. Ma, ai livelli più alti della società, non accenna a decadere l'importanza dei cenacoli, degli 'inner circle', delle confraternite. Con sedi in palazzi antichi, poltrone in cuoio un po' usurate, foresterie dove impera l'etichetta o, almeno, appuntamenti fissi in alberghi e ristoranti dal consolidato buon nome. Proliferano, anzi. Luoghi d'eccellenza di quello che oggi si chiama "capitalismo di relazioni".I circoli cosiddetti "sociali" sono i più esclusivi, origini spesso ottocentesche e albo dei soci denso di blasoni aristocratici. Sono 18 in Italia - quelli dell'Unione in varie città, gli Scacchi e la Caccia a Roma, il Clubino a Milano e il Whist a Torino, per citare i più known - and have just updated their yearbook with a new elite membership, the Teatro di Brescia. In Genoa, the tunnel is called "Art Club", had to solve problems here - you are transferring in the Doria Palace - but there still decide the important roles of owners and industrial citizens. The entrance to the Milan club is a dangerous adventure where you gain prestige, but you can also burn with unexpected waste. And in sports clubs are calibrated Roman's most important assets of SOEs, from the presidency Rai, identified in the locker room Rowers Rome, where much has benefited from the proximity of lockers Gianni Letta and Paul Garimberti. The circle as mortgage
Aid - The sports clubs of the capital are special case. Focus on the banks of the Tiber River upstream of the city have deserved a chapter - 'The gold circles' - in the book by Claudio Cerasa, 'The fall of Rome' (Rizzoli): "There was political and not bothered how to manage and how to possibly exploit the potential that lies behind the sports clubs, and especially dell'Aniene. "With good continuity between the First and Second Republic. The film, in this case is evidence of truth. With the sketch of Andreotti - in 'The Divo'di Sorrentino - when analyzing the situation coolly and is not accused of mafia to worry but the smallest of matters, "I've been discouraged removed from the chairmanship of the musical circles. " And with the apotheosis of the Roman sports club painted by Christian De Sica in 'likes and dislikes' (where Cesare Previti is embodied to perfection by Gianfranco Funari). From his observatory Dagospia, Roberto D'Agostino said: "What was left to Roman GENERON once taken over from the economic point of view? Be part of the rich son who saves the patrician palace. And become a member of the circle, next to the ones you've saved from rovina.Sono mutual aid that work very well. "Antico Tiro a Volo - on top of the Parioli - collects a high percentage of the legal personality of the Authority and, until the Constitutional Court. Presided over by Advocate Anastasio Michael Pugliese, counts among its members Domenico Fisichella, Antonio Catricalà, Luigi Mazzella, Franco Frattini, Lino Denise, Corrado Calabro. Salvatore says Taverna, former columnist of the 'Messenger', "the poet of the night" as he called Fellini: "In summer there is the most beautiful holiday clubs. Very traditional and very elegant. " Rowing to Rome he was president until 2008 Gianni Battistoni (now the role is covered by Andrea Tinarelli, manager dell'Unicredit). That's where the film was shot by De Sica. Battistoni he's sorry - "I seccai much later. Why tease the Lazio Rowing "- and that scales the power is concentrated in the circle: "Certainly, members have important, but the amalgam remains the sport. Maybe the American model is where you would get, with lobbying, trade opportunities and major agreements. But here we can not succeed because the student spirit and is never serious. And I know from friends who by definition do not get anything. We are twinned with the New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame is there, the tombstone of the fallen for their country, their jackets at the club. Imagine. Maybe elsewhere ...». Elsewhere means Rowing Aniene, with President John Malago, said even maliciously megaliths. "Expensive. But as you redo them, "he said referring to the entry around. Malaga is on track dopo un salutare massaggio alle nove di mattina, memore delle lezioni dell'avvocato Agnelli che lo trattava da proconsole nella capitale: «Le nostre regole? Come la Costituzione che recita "promuovere lo sport". Ridicolo pensare ad altre cose, a un centro alternativo alle situazioni esistenti di potere. C'è spirito sociale. Una cosa diversa dal lobbying. Nel senso che il socio medico ti indica dove andare a curarti se ne hai bisogno». Altre volte Malagò è meno decoubertiniano. Nel libro di Cerasa dichiara: «Da un lato ci sono le medaglie olimpiche... Dall'altro c'è tutto quello che riguarda la vita di imprenditori, manager, professionisti, banchieri, giornalisti e costruttori romani, il clima che si crea nella nostra struttura provided an opportunity to give life to mergers between banks, encouraging many strategic agreements for the city to sign alliances between entrepreneurs and policies designed to find important. It happened often that illustrious members have concluded dell'Aniene great deals in our circle, but this happens in a non-intentional. Let's just say random: here you can eat, play tennis, you smoke a cigar, they talk, I do not know, of the Rome football, Alitalia, triggered mechanisms of complicity, solve problems and concluding agreements. " With the same Malagò often personally involved (Air One, Technimont, Unicredit, Auditorium ...). In fact, the President likes to tell the internal rivalries between rowers (Alberto Tripi, Enrico Vanzina) and runner (Matteo Montezemolo, Giampaolo Letta, Salvatore Rebecchini), but there are jitters less ephemeral. Those of a partner for half a century, for example, Maurizio Clerici, former Olympic rowing: "The problem is that you do business Aniene first and then does the rest. When you're in charge of thirty thousand euro entrance fee to be part of this lobby is as if you entered into a great company of shares which, of course, demand to get something. "Wealth and nobility - If the sports clubs on wake of the Roman ones, seem hard to take care of business, offices and alliances, the social stressing the difference in style delighting in loving diasporas. So the oldest club in Turin and the Accademia Filarmonica Whist - in Piazza San Carlo, founded in 1841, Camillo di Cavour - is divided into companies with names mischievous: the "mandrills," the "butterflies", the "gianduiotti", the "grapefruit "(born as a caricature of another group, the" mandarins ", but in the sense of China). "The mandrills were the brightest. But now they are extinct for age reasons, "says the president of Alexander Sclopis Saleano, stating that the Whist you are not hostile to the subgroups within the circle, others, if anything, are the things to avoid:" We share the cultural . Those who speak of business would be looked at very bad eye. " Moreover, there have never been - nor hanno fatto domanda - tanti nomi importanti della Torino industriale come Romiti, De Benedetti e, oggi, Marchionne. Apolitico e aconfessionale, l'aristocratico club registrò un terremoto nel dopoguerra, ovvero l'epurazione degli ufficiali che avevano giurato per Salò: «Perché non si giura due volte. E loro avevano già giurato per il Re».Vicende di corti e dinastie hanno turbato anche la vita dei due circoli romani più aristocratrici, la Caccia e gli Scacchi. Col primo nato liberaleggiante, nel 1870, visto che fece subito presidente onorario Umberto I suscitando l'ostilità della Segreteria di Stato in Vaticano. E il secondo che se ne separò come costola della nobiltà nera. Oggi le parti si sono invertite: la Caccia remains almost exclusively noble and Chess' are open to the modern world, we seek the aristocracy of our times: men of culture, institutions, major state offices. People like Giulio Tremonti. It is completely right when he later sat at a table always gets up: "You here is my president, '" says Don Giulio Patrizi of Ripacandida, nine years as president. What has its work cut out anyway in Rondanini Palace, Via del Corso, the eighth Clubhouse of the foundation. Faces external competition - "Now there is a tendency to attend Aniene that attracts more to the type of meetings, there is a round of business" - and, in of the club members more closely linked to the past. Those who grumble in front of the decision to open the second floor "Sala salad rich", a dedicated environment where you can receive the lunch guests, attended daily by about fifty people, especially the younger members. "The members room on the third floor, closed to outsiders, ended up being used only by older people. Li, the ceremony is also hard if not written: Do not you get up if the president does not get up, and its chair should remain empty, if not then he comes and we have many members waiting, the place is assigned, then if President arrives, those who have occupied his chair has to offer champagne to everyone. " On the third floor, now finds himself a ten elderly gentlemen who are a bit 'of opposition in the upcoming elections in November: "I understand that they feel a bit' blocks. But I can not ignore the young people who represent the future of the club to promote the exclusivity. " The British-inspired circles grows in northern Italy. Discretion and confidentiality are unbreakable passwords to the Society of Garden or Clubin in Milan. Among the six hundred members Clubin, since 1901, there are all upper-class Milanese family, along with a fee at the time fled aristocratic dall'ingessatissima Union in search of greater vitality. But it remains in force notice of John Sforza, president in the early eighties: "If you think I came here to do business with the members you are mistaken. " So it is kindly advised to bring pen and paper work in the dining room, and does raise many eyebrows, the ringing of a mobile phone. Explain today's president, Gian Giacomo Attolico Trivulzio: "Here is how it was in a private home. Circles of this kind, it must be remembered, are not public places. " To avoid, then, customs and restricted the formation of subgroups (discouraged, here, unlike elsewhere), access to tables is strictly in order of arrival. And an atmosphere not too far (although there are mini-groups: barbers, peasants, baccalaioli ...) in Naples we breathe, the Circolo del Remo and Vela Italia che custodisce la passione marinaresca dell'alta borghesia partenopea: «È difficile si facciano affari, qui. Ci conosciamo tutti fra noi, da anni. È così che arrivano anche le otto, dieci nuove iscrizioni ogni anno», ragiona il vicepresidente Giuseppe "Picchio" Milone.
M'iscrivo anch'io? No, tu no - Il capitolo delle bocciature e delle esclusioni è il più delicato, spesso segreto. Fece scalpore, al Clubino di Milano, quella di Alessandro Benetton nel 2007 (pare che, anni prima, fosse andata male anche a Gianmarco Moratti): un terremoto, anche perché la proposta e la presentazione aveva coinvolto soci eminenti come Gerardo Braggiotti, Cario Bonomi e Gaddo della Gherardesca. Un altro Gherardesca, Instead, he had been involved in the long fight that marked the entrance of Roberto Gucci nell'assai aristocratic Union of Florence. The most illustrious families lined up on one side or the other. Against the brothers Pucci, Emilio Pucci and: Gucci is a name without a history. And Gherardesca of Guelph, the enemy camp, Emily froze with a memorable line: "Watch out, there are listed in the phone a couple of pages of Pucci. Gherardesca of us just me and my brother. " Instead, in front of the hall suffered long to get to the same circle, the Pontello, powerful manufacturers, they found a drastic response: You made a club on his own, the Florence (in more recent years, then, the veto has been dropped). In Rome, the 'elsewhere triumphant Malagò Hunt was unsuccessful, and he fell on the entry to the circle of Giovanni Maria Flick Chess: sponsoring as a prominent member Leopoldo Elia but his record of Minister Prodi disturb any member who expects the vote to impallinarlo. In Turin, the leaders of the Accademia Filarmonica Whist and admit some excellent but woe to refuse to name names and surnames. You do not go beyond a "still need to go back to the nineties", suggesting that the mechanism works well to filter and verify the behavior towards those who already iscritto.Stoppati in Naples, at the Circolo del Remo Italy and Vela, Antonio D ' Amato Corrado Ferlaino, while the no to an urban legend Diego Della Valle: "It's just that his secretary is not informed about the procedures then those after registration. But we would be glad to welcome him. And then the sea means, "states the exclusion Milone.Ma most tormented of all, was that of Francesco Cossiga. Also because it covered both historical circles in the capital. First, the "pickaxe" tried it with the Hunt. Met at the Vatican Giulio Sacchetti, the president, and expressed his desire to join the club. Bags probed the moods of the members present and made a Cossiga was that the passage of the balls not just assume black or white for acceptance. The answer was withering: "I do not even think to be voted. I shall appoint as if I were a prince real. " Indignantly withdrawn before the inability to reverse the regulation. Some time later, the attempt was repeated with chess. Here, the poll had him a partner, the State Accountant Andrea Monorchio. He spoke to the president Patrizi and that he felt the mood of the members. CBE is far from conducive warmly. Thus, in the risk of rejection, the second application was dissolved. The circles itinerantiMa there is another face in the galaxy of clubs, this one inspired by Anglo-Saxon habits, where the pleasure of being together is not necessarily linked to the custom of the same place, a building where he was recognized at from the port and where we know that is the most comfortable chair. These are called circles pitches, where members meet at regular intervals, and not always in the same place, even in hotels, restaurants, historic homes, other clubs hospitable. Two examples in Milan are chasing very name. They are the Friends of the Friends of the Thursday and Friday. The first - President Joseph Diana - shall meet twice a week, now the Society of the Garden after a long period to Savini. Impossible to ascertain whether, as someone noted the existing shareholders, Silvio Berlusconi was among the founders, along with Mario and Giuseppe Prisco Talamona. From the six or seven of the beginning, however, members are now forty. Corrado Passera as between their bankers and Pietro Gori, professors such as Henry De Mita, lawyers as Enzo Paladino, industrial as Giordano Zucchi, Federico Falck, Mario Boselli, Giuseppe Gaetano Marzotto and Stefanel. Gian Galeazzo Biazzi Vergani, chairman of the editorial of the "Journal" is instead a Friend Friday: "For membership we have two criteria: be good friends or acquaintances of someone who already has a partner, and enjoy a certain prestige" . So included in the club, that it meets frequently to the Society of Garden, Umberto Veronesi, Cesare Romiti, Riccardo Chailly, Monsignor Buzzi (which took the place of Gianfranco Ravasi after having inherited the job at the helm of the Ambrosiana) Sergio Romano, Bruno Ermolli. The last co-option is to Remo Cantoni. Born after the war, the Friends have never been more than thirty, twenty today. They meet the last Friday of the month, one member calls and then take a report. In February, the event was held at the Ambrosiana invited by Monsignor Buzzi who then talked about Leonardo da Vinci. There is one aspect in which this club is no different from social circles, "Inviting the Lord is not forbidden, but when I tried to accept them as members, the proposal was rejected by a majority," says Biazzi Vergani. The genesis of the Magician, is a bit 'different, built on the union of friends and professional people still in contention. The Magician is the group of one hundred members, Turin for three quarters and the rest of Milan: "He was born 27 years ago. The master's students are two to three high schools in Turin, then a graduate in law and economics, sharing a moderate worldview. But there is the idea of \u200b\u200ba sort of room riprofilare corporations. It is an occasion for serious meeting to exchange professional experience, "says the president Giulio Bencini, financial adviser:" We meet a couple of times a month at Villa Rey, although the last meeting we moved to Venaria. And when the meeting takes place in Milan we rely on Manfredo Camper Club. " In Rome, such an idea is declined in the Upper Room, created by journalist Marco Antonellis, five years ago with a group colleagues. Today brings together some thirty people who meet once a month in the private room of a restaurant (at Bagutta, the last time) often inviting people with whom to discuss freely. From the Upper Room have passed Pippo Corigliano Opus Dei, Giancario Elia Valori, Monsignor Paglia and Gianni Letta, and - with the utmost discretion - apparently Cesare Geronzi. In club circles, finally, we can not neglect those of the former alumni, who recall the tradition of the confraternities and sororities in American universities, when they are not directly related to those. The former preppy hold a meeting each month, along with lunches in the morning. Former McKinsey meet 300-400 people (there captain Corrado Passera and Vittorio Colao) once a year, a week before Christmas. At Normale di Pisa as Cesare Alfieri in Florence trying to revive the tradition. In Pisa, moving the annual meeting in June and re-establish communication with alumni. In Florence, scratch, since the veterans today are united only by specially designed by Pucci tie. An example that works are the alumni of law from Milan arrived at the 15 th anniversary, 3-4 events a year, about fifty people for happy hour Jolly President Francesco Sketch Franzi, the outgoing president, said: "I do not we are a club monoprofessionale. From the right people that start out in different areas: avvocati, notai, giornalisti, banchieri d'impresa. Così questo è un network di persone che hanno in comune l'attenzione al diritto. Poi, io ho lavorato perché ci si potesse incontrare qui anche fra laureati di ieri e signori coi capelli bianchi». Scambi di opportunità?: «Mi viene in mente un caso. Avevamo deciso di dare un contributo a studenti per un corso di tre settimane in Cina. L'abbiamo annunciato sulla newsletter e ci ha risposto un socio, Marco Leporati, rappresentante a Shanghai della Savino Del Bene. Ci ha aiutato a organizzare lì una riunione con i dirigenti della Camera di Commercio italocinese».
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