THE ALL-ENCOMPASSING CHARM OF PIA MARIANI VANQUISHES WHOEVER ENCOUNTERS HER: IT IS A CHARM THAT RADIATES FROM A BACKGROUND STEEPED IN ANCIENT NOBILITY THAT BECOMES INNOVATIVE AND CONTEMPORARY UNDER HER INFLUENCE.

First of all, that of Renaissance goldsmith masters and the splendour of their creations at the origin of Milanese excellence.
And even further back, her charm harks back to the colours of the Molise skies, of centuries of history tied to when the Norman adventurer, Robert Guiscard, conquered southern Italy and Sicily, when the breadth of the wide horizons between the municipalities of Larino and Ururi were woven with the essential and cosmopolitan wisdom of Benedictine monks. Ururi, in the Arbërëshe dialect, means aurora (dawn), and was the name of an ancient monastic site that later became a small town in the Molise region, in the heart of Central Italy, the treasure chest of all art of the Renaissance.