Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor Wilmington partner Richard A. DiLiberto Jr. is set to receive the 2023 Philip Mazzei Americanism Award from Unico National, America’s largest Italian-American Service Organization, during its annual convention in Sanibel Harbour, Florida, in July.

The award is named for Philip Mazzei, an Italian patriot, physician and vintner, who became a close friend and neighbor to Thomas Jefferson, in colonial Virginia in 1774. Mazzei is credited with first proposing the great phrase “All men are created equal” anchored in the Declaration of Independence in 1776, by Jefferson.