title: Grattini: A Short Cut to Happiness
author:  Vittorio Mosca 
description: VITTORIO MOSCA was born in Milan and belongs to a very well-known family with ancient traditions. He has been one of the most successful industrialists in the luxury linens business and has dedicated most of his life to the Company Frette. Now retired, he is dedicating his attention to the world of art and culture. With this book, his first work, he is searching for a dialogue with the public, mostly female but also male, and seeks to share his knowledge of this very intimate and original subject.
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  CHAPTER VIII
  
  Signor Giovacchino Fortini at Home
  
  The Baron Manutoli was Ludovico di Castelmare's very good friend. But there
  are two sorts of friends--friends who show their friendship by wishing, and
  endeavouring to obtain for us, what we wish for ourselves; and friends, whose
  friendship consists in wishing for us things analogous to what they wish for
  themselves;-- who endeavour to procure for us, not what we wish, but what they
  consider to be good for us.
  
  Now the Baron Manutoli belonged to the latter of these two categories. He was
  some years older than Ludovico; had been a married man, and was now a widower
  with one little boy,--the future Baron Manutoli; and considered himself as
  having been blessed with a supreme and exceptional degree of good fortune,
  with regard to all that appertained to that difficult and often disastrous
  chapter of human destinies which concerns the relations of mankind with the
  other sex. Happiness and advantages, ordinarily i