Airbubba, hector, twonky,
Yes it’s true, Mr Franco Pecci is well connected with the present (
) Italian politicians.
No, by no means Mr. Franco Pecci is connected to the old and noble Pecci-Blunt family (those with Papa Leone XIII and the filosopher Giuseppe Pecci amongst their ancestors) it is a simple case of “partial” homonymy (check the Roma Telephone Directory and you will see that Pecci is a widespread name…).
I’m saying “partial” because the name of the aristocratic (Earls or Counts) descendants of Papa Leone XIII is now “Pecci-Blunt”.
I don’t know how this “metropolitan legend” was started, maybe it was Franco Pecci himself (the
guy has a huge ego...).