The book on Raul Gardini, Andrea Pasqualetto and Lucio Trevisan win the Marincovich prize

It’s a book that has taken off so much that he even put behind him the legendary pirate Francis Drake, the English corsair and terror of the seas who lived at the end of the 1500s. Moreover, in terms of resourcefulness and courage when it came to taking the first step, Raul Gardini, the protagonist “Of wind and earth” – the book written by Andrea Pasqualettojournalist of Corriere della Sera, and by the photojournalist Lucio Trevisanper Solferino publisher -, was second to none. Pasqualetto and Trevisan’s curiosity about the last 15 years of Gardin’s lifei, who, from ’79 to ’93, managed to build an industrial and financial empire and to win, with the boat Il Moro di Venezia, the legendary “Vuitton Cup” sailing race of ’92, in the American waters of San Diego, took them to receive, this Thursday 18 April at the “Caio Duilio” Navy Officers Club in Rome, the literary journalistic prize “Carlo Marincovich-Culture of the sea”.

The award, now in its 15th edition is dedicated to sea, regatta and motoring journalists, topics that Marincovich has covered for more than 50 years, especially in the newspaper “La Repubblica”. Marincovich was among the first to write about narrative journalism, genre that we find in the book “Of wind and earth”, a book that has two souls, or the two passions of Gardini: on the one hand, sailing, and on the other, entrepreneurship and finance. “It took me two years to write it. During which we were able to hear from the major co-protagonists of those years, the people who knew Gardini closely“, explains Pasqualetto, born in Mestre, a stone’s throw from Venice, the city where the legend of the Moor of Venice was born: “The boat was inaugurated in Venice on 11 March 1990, while its construction took place in Porto Marghera, in the Tencara shipyards, made by Gardini himself in a disused area of ​​the petrochemical plant”.

At the beginning we mentioned Francis Drakethe pirate of the seas in the service of the Queen of England Elizabeth I, also the title of the book by David Salomoni, second place, in the “Non-Fiction” section (the others are “Fiction” and “Junior”), to the “Carlo Marincovich-Culture of the Sea” award and in which the social rise of the English corsair is told. He started from nothing and became a legendary character. Never perhaps more than the protagonist of “Di Vento e di Terra” by Pasqualetto-Trevisan, defined by Trevisan himself, “The happy pirate”, whose authentic passion for the sea is even found in the prizes given to the winners, who managed to put 50 selected works behind them before being part of the 28 finalists.

The prices? These are objects, parts and components of boats that have made history and the modern chronicle of design and sailing, kindly offered by shipyards, shipowners, athletes, nautical clubs and collectors. “Our” Pasqualetto and Trevisan, for example, received the Elichetta, the trophy that has been awarded to powerboat champions for decades during the “UIM Awards Giving Ceremony” of Montecarlo, and the “Main hach” hinge, a safety component for the new Formula E1 hulls.

April 18, 2024

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