The Return of the Old Dons

At noon on Sunday, a private helicopter carried Alessandro and Isabella across the snow-capped Italian Alps, descending toward the tranquil, sun-drenched waters of Lake Como in northern Italy. Perched on the cliffside of Bellagio, surrounded by terraced olive groves, cypress trees, and cascading purple bougainvillea, was *Villa Viti-Romano*—the historic seventeenth-century estate that had belonged to Alessandro’s mother’s family. As the helicopter landed on the private grassy helipad, an extraordinary, heartwarming…