Two years before his death in 2022, Leonardo Del Vecchio, the Italian billionaire who built EssilorLuxottica into the world’s biggest eyewear-maker, handed control of the business to his trusted confidante, Francesco Milleri.(2022年去世前两年，将依视路陆逊梯卡打造成全球最大眼镜制造商的意大利亿万富翁莱昂纳多·德尔·韦基奥，将公司的控制权交给了他信任的密友弗朗切斯科·米莱里。) To his heirs(继承人), Del Vecchio left equal stakes in a holding company, Delfin, which owns 32% of EssilorLuxottica, alongside stakes in various other Italian companies.
2022年去世前两年，将依视路陆逊梯卡打造成全球最大眼镜制造商的意大利亿万富翁莱昂纳多·德尔·韦基奥，将公司的控制权交给了他信任的密友弗朗切斯科·米莱里。德尔·韦基奥给继承人留下了控股公司Delfin的等额股份，该公司持有依视路陆逊梯卡32%的股份，此外还持有其他多家意大利公司的股份。
For a time, there was harmony(和谐；和睦). At its peak in November last year the market value of EssilorLuxottica, which owns brands including Ray-Ban and Oliver Peoples, reached €148bn ($172bn), nearly triple what it is was worth when Mr Milleri took charge.(去年11月巅峰时期，拥有雷朋和奥利弗·皮普尔斯等品牌的依视路陆逊梯卡市值达到1480亿欧元（1720亿美元），几乎是米莱里接手时的三倍。) Since then it has plunged(暴跌；骤降) back down to €81bn amid a governance crisis brought about by Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio (pictured), the 31-year-old heir who until August served as the company’s strategy chief. Investors fear that the dysfunction(功能失调；失灵) is set to coincide with(将与……同时发生) a period of technological upheaval(剧变；动荡) for the company.
曾有一段时间，一切和谐。去年11月巅峰时期，拥有雷朋和奥利弗·皮普尔斯等品牌的依视路陆逊梯卡市值达到1480亿欧元（1720亿美元），几乎是米莱里接手时的三倍。此后，由于31岁的继承人莱昂纳多·马里亚·德尔·韦基奥（见图）引发的治理危机，市值暴跌回810亿欧元。这位继承人直到今年8月还担任公司战略主管。投资者担心，这种治理失灵将与公司面临的技术剧变期同时发生。
Over the past month the crisis has spilled out into the open(公开化；泄露)—in sometimes bizarre(离奇的；古怪的) fashion. First came a podcast in which Leonardo Maria lamented(哀叹；痛惜) a lack of love from his father, shared his struggles with drug abuse, boasted of his sexual exploits(功绩；大胆行为) (2,000 women, many seduced by singing Enrique Iglesias’s “Hero”)—and declared that his former mentor Mr Milleri should be “nervous” about his handling of EssilorLuxottica. Then in a rambling radio interview on October 26th the wayward heir claimed that Mr Milleri had been appointed chief executive only as a caretaker with the job of finding a successor, which he had failed to do.(随后在10月26日一次漫无边际的电台采访中，这位任性的继承人声称米莱里被任命为首席执行官只是临时看管人，任务是寻找继任者，而他未能做到。)
过去一个月，这场危机公开爆发——有时方式颇为离奇。先是一档播客节目，莱昂纳多·马里亚在节目中哀叹得不到父亲的爱，分享自己与毒瘾的斗争，吹嘘自己的性经历（2000名女性，许多人是因为他唱恩里克·伊格莱西亚斯的《Hero》而被吸引）——并宣称他的前导师米莱里应该对依视路陆逊梯卡的管理感到“紧张”。随后在10月26日一次漫无边际的电台采访中，这位任性的继承人声称米莱里被任命为首席执行官只是临时看管人，任务是寻找继任者，而他未能做到。