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The defeat suffered in the General Assembly of April 29 leaves Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone and Leonardo Del Vecchio with a strategic doubt. No Italian entrepreneur had put so much resources on the plate to take command of a financial group of this importance, one of the largest insurance companies in Europe. At stock market prices, the respective shares of 9.9% – just above the Roman businessman, just below the president of EssilorLuxottica – are worth over 2.8 billion each.