No matter how hard he tried, Ivo Cubi could not have done anything else for a living. His last name, to begin with, in Italian literally means "Cubes." Plus he was born into a family that, in one capacity or another, has worked with marble for seven generations. The sixth of which, his father, did everything possible to keep his only son on "the marble track."

After spending afternoons and holidays as a youth in the family's marble lab, he decided at age 19 to go to South America as a geological scouting agent for a multinational corporation. "I was looking for adventure," Ivo recalls. (He was born Angelo, but avoid confusion with his homonymous uncle, he was soon nicknamed after the priest who baptized him.) "I had a job lined up for me and all, but at the time, the legal adult age was 21 and you needed your parents' signature to accept such a position. Of course, my father did not sign."

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Fonte: Bostoniano