When most billionaires think about leaving a legacy, they build skyscrapers, museums, or charitable foundations. Italian luxury fashion entrepreneur Brunello Cucinelli has chosen something different: a library. The founder of the cashmere fashion empire is creating the Universal Library of Solomeo, an ambitious cultural project in the medieval Italian village where his company is based. Inspired by the ancient Library of Alexandria, the library aims to preserve humanity's greatest books and make them freely accessible to readers, scholars and future generations. More than a collection of books, Cucinelli envisions it as a living monument to knowledge, beauty and human dignity that will continue growing for the next 1,000 years.
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