Saint Peter's Square

He's the former CEO of Fiat and the global CMO at Stellantis, which is where he now works as a strategic advisor.

The group has organized large events such as Grace for the World during the twenty twenty-five Vatican Jubilee, which drew over two hundred and fifty thousand people to St. Peter's Square, and the World Meeting on Human Fraternity.

The sphere that they gifted him is meant as a symbol of humanity in the age of AI.

It's a near-perfect geometric form, created imperfectly by human breath and hands, they say.

I don't think there's any kind of conspiracy behind it.

Public materials out there, though, anything that you could find on it, describe them as supported by private patrons, individual donors, and r- and board members rather than government grants.

The chairman, again, Olivier Francois, referred to more than one hundred private donors who funded the large Grace for the World concert in St. Peter's Square back in twenty twenty-five.

Named board members include Kimball Musk, yes, as in Elon Musk, relative of his, Gordon Bowen, and Paolo Siniscalco.

and our expectation of what the answer would look like.

If you think the answer is going to show up like this salmon-colored sticky notepad, if it shows up like this figurine that is depicting St. Peter's Square, it was a gift somebody got me from Rome, if you see that, you're going to say, that can't be my answer.

If you thought the answer was going to show up like the Roman Colosseum, another gift I got from Rome, but it ends up showing up like an Apple TV remote, you're going to say, this can't be my answer.

And I need you to hear me clearly.

This hotel is very unique because it's both a resort and a hotel.

We're right across from Vatican City in a five-minute walk from St. Peter's Square.

So basically you cannot find a better location in Rome.

You're surrounded by history.

I remember a number of years ago being with a group that I was with at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Vatican.

And in the square, St. Peter's Square, the big piazza, there's a Roman obelisk, this big 40 foot, 50 foot tall Roman obelisk.

And somebody that I was with was saying, oh my gosh, look at the paganism of the Catholic church.

They put this Egyptian obelisk, excuse me, Egyptian obelisk that the Romans brought in the middle of this thing.

And it was hard for him.

to go on that rant and they looked at the spot and I could tell it made a little bit of a difference.

I remember one time I was there, it was actually, I think one of the first times that I went into St. Peter's square or St. to, to the Vatican.

And I went into St. Peter's Basilica and I took a picture from the inside of Michelangelo's of the dome there, Michelangelo's beautiful dome.

Pope Innocent X of Pamphili.

Though initially favoring rival Francesco Baramini, we'll be talking about him and his rivalry with Bernini in future episodes, innocent tenth awarded bernini the commission for the fountain of four rivers in piazza nivona after bernini delivered a secret silver model thus stealing the commission and honor from the great Pope Alexander VII, a Chigi, commissioned Bernini to design the monumental elliptical colonnade enclosing St. Peter's Square.

Through these alliances spanning six decades and eight papacies, Bernini shaped the visual identity of Rome.

But it all started with the extraordinary burst of genius in his early 20s, capturing love, terror, and the cycle of the seasons in cold marble.