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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Prada fashion boss rescues historic newsstand in Tuscany

Piero Scartoni, the owner of the historic newsstand in Piazza San Jacopo in Arezzo.
Piero Scartoni, the owner of the historic newsstand in Piazza San Jacopo in Arezzo. Photograph: Arezzonotizie.it

The owner of a historic newsstand in a Tuscan city said he was “delighted” the business has been saved by one of his old customers – Patrizio Bertelli, the chair of the Italian fashion house Prada.

Piero Scartoni, 91, who has been getting up at 5am to run the newsstand in Piazza San Jacopo in the centre of Arezzo since 1953, can finally retire after it was bought by Bertelli, who was born in the city and is the husband of the fashion designer Miuccia Prada.

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