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Sometimes wills become news stories: it is happening these days, with the story of Gianni Agnelli's inheritance, on which five proceedings are open in which his daughter Margherita is against his three children she had with Alain Elkann: John, Lapo and Ginevra. They are all descendants of another Giovanni Agnelli, the grandfather of the Lawyer and founder of Fiat, whose will was the first written by a member of that family to seem more like a company statute than a list of final provisions. But for a whole series of understandable reasons. Sometimes, however, wills become the subject of novels: because they tell of families that also seem to come out of a novel. Or maybe they become the subject of one: it happened for example to the Florios, told in the best seller by Stefania AuciI leoni di Sicilia, from which a TV series was also made in 2023. Ignazio Florio's wills indicate the path to follow for those who inherit a rapidly expanding company, which however will not survive the "Buddenbrook law" (from the famous novel by Thomas Mann that tells the story of the rise and fall of a German industrial dynasty). These are the wills recounted in the fourth episode of "The Last Will", with the voices of Micol Sarfatti, Daniele Manca, Isidoro Trovato and Giulio Biino. "The Last Will: The Wills That Made Italy Great", is an 8-episode podcast series created by Corriere della Sera that tells the story of our country through the original point of view of the wills of illustrious Italians. It comes out every Friday. Listen to it on Corriere: https://www.corriere.it/podcast/l-ult...