by Joseph N. DiStefano

Andrea Canepari, Italy's gently polished, vastly energetic and partly Penn-educated Consul-General in Philadelphia, held a kick-off party Sunday for the city's prominenti i patroni in honor of Ciao! Philadelphia, the month-long abbondanza of Italian cultural events -- schedule here.

It was a gray windy day for a boat ride -- but the glassed-in superyacht, Philadelphia Energy Solutions CEO and longtime private equity investor Philip Rinaldi's 116-foot, multi-level Vivere, has been around the world and can handle weather and much else (for just $57,000, you can charter the 2008-edition Azimut Grande-model boat, which sleeps 10 and comes with a full crew, here). Vivere = Italian, To Live.

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