Inauguration of the Logistics Faculty Library named after Maurizio Caponi. From local newspapers:

IL CORRIERE DI LIVORNO, 4 March 2009:
“(….) It seemed an impossible feet, a dream, but thanks to the funds donated by the Maurizio Caponi foundation in 2007, the Comune of Livorno was able to restore the former guest quarters in Villa Letizia where the University of Pisa degree course in Logistics Economics and Law has been taught for the last three years. All important local dignitaries: from mayor Cosimi to the provincial governor, Kutufà; from the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Roberto Nardi, to the Port Authority Executive Director, Roberto Piccini; from the vice president of the Cassa di Risparmi Foundation, Carlo Venturini, to Professor Nicoletta Di Francesco were present for the occasion. – Kutufà spoke saying, “Livorno is a strategic Mediterranean port which is continually expanding its role in commerce with south-east Asia. It is therefore becoming essential to invest in our human assets, prepare and strengthen them”.

IL TIRRENO, 4 March 2009:
(….) The opening of the new facilities, surrounded by the greenery of Villa Letizia and financed by the Caponi family Foundation in memory of Maurizio, member of an entrepreneurial dynasty (Giorgio Gori srl) deceased in 2003, may be an indication of a new way of perceiving collective assets by the protagonists of the local economy. On this D-day of debut before an audience of student-users, it is a point on which everyone insists: a Pro-Vice Chancellor, N. de Francesco; the mayor, A. Cosimi and city councilor G. Colombini, the provincial governor, G.Kutufà and the President of the Chamber of Commerce, R.Nardi; and the number-two man at the Cassa Risparmi Livorno Foundation, C. Venturini. (….) around 300 students (41% female) are enrolled in the school, distributed over the three-year degree program; the first of whom will complete their course of study in a few weeks. Now, there is also the library offering 350 volumes, subscriptions to 19 magazines, access to an international data bank, and is open 52 hours every week, Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 7:00pm. One of the students, Alessandro Lazzeri, representative of the Institute said, “the new facility is important for us logistics students both from a practical and a psychological point of view: in this time of cutting funds for universities and shaky economy, we finally have a sign indicating that studying empowers the future”.

IL TIRRENO, 4 March 2009 – an excerpt from Michela Pignone Caponi's speech:
“ Before remembering him as the professional figure that has been highlighted here, I like to remember Maurizio as an exemplary husband, extremely capable in doing team work and contemplating rationally and simply the construction of the future, without ever surrendering. (…) Everything you see around us here, these walls, these young men and women, are in line with what Maurizio was.”