Bill Gates and his partner Paula Hurd as two any tourists at Bezos’s wedding in Venice

In the queue like any one at the Academy, Calzino and Bermuda and Polo without a brand, Microsoft’s co-founder It is the perfect tourist that Venice could wish for. Cultured, curious, wealthy but normal, in love with Italian history and art, Bill Gates – guest of the wedding Bezos – found the right key: After centuries of poets and writers, here is the casual millionaire that has fully understood Venice. Arrived with a private flight of course, but in a torny one, a jeans not too fashionable and a cotton golf, descended to the st regis but without raised hands and dazzling smiles, he asked to do what he likes most: A three -day Grand Tour in Venice that counts and has left trace of itself over the centuries.

Yesterday under the relentless sun of the 14 caps and Bermuda the Microsoft co-founder lined up at the entrance of the Galleries of the Academy of Venice. With him thereTo companion Paula Hurd and five members of his staff. No bodyguar. Bill paid the tickets like everyone and entered the exhibition «Modern bodies. The construction of the body in the Venice of the Renaissance. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Duhrer, Giorgione ». The deputy director Roberta Battaglia awaits him. Happy to be in Venice, he wanted to contemplate Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian man. And his passion for Leonardo does no mystery: Gates purchased the Leicester code in 1994 for $ 30.8 million.

In the Three Days Venetian He was a guest of the Cini Foundation for a private visit to San Giorgio together with Oprah Winfrey and Rania of Jordan And he expressed the desire to be able to see the biennial pavilions. Him and Paula Hurd They have been a fixed couple for at least two years and have already participated together with Bezos’ engagement party in 2023, on a 500 million dollar yacht.