A few months after the marriage of his elder brother Bernardo to Giorgina Venosta, in November 1958, the second brother, Uncle Guido, married Maria Luisa (known as Lu) Austoni, daughter of Benedetto, a surgeon and medical luminary, on 20 April 1959, in the Milan church of San Simpliciano. They had known each other since they were children, as often happens between families that move in the same circles; but Lu, about ten years younger than Guido, had a weakness (and even more) for the last of the Caprotti family, her uncle Claudio Caprotti, a little older than her, a weakness that her mother, according to her uncle, did not accept and shouted at her, pushing her towards Guido who by then had a position in work and in society.
The daughter of a famous professor who gets married makes the news, so the day, from the ceremony to the reception, deserves a newspaper blurb, from which we learn that among the groom’s witnesses was Nanni Falck, a childhood friend of Peppino, the groom’s late father. Exceptional guests, elegance (the enormous rose in Lu’s hairstyle was all the rage at the time), toasts are intertwined, the mother-in-law smiles and the photograph of the groom’s friends and relatives is almost a copy of the one taken at Bernardo’s wedding, with the addition of his lifelong friend and business partner Marco Brunelli and, for once, the three Caprotti brothers smiling side by side (in the penultimate photo from left to right: Antonio Radaelli, Marco Brunelli, Silvano Rezzaghi, Guido Caprotti, Albano Tosato, Claudio Caprotti, Alberto Fasoli, Bernardo Caprotti, Puricelli and Luigi Rivolta).
Guido and Lu lived serene moments, they had two daughters, Benedetta and Elisabetta, but this union, like Bernardo and Giorgina’s, was also destined to founder, albeit several years later, leaving time for Aunt Lu to be affectionately close to me and my sister Violetta, who had been left children without a mother.
Uncle Guido remarried with Ida Beretta di Colugna, Aunt Lu found her definitive stability next to Mauro Olgiati, an artist of value and a great collector of books, who in the 1990s also worked with me and my sister Violetta on graphic projects for Esselunga.
Bibliography:
CAPROTTI, G. CAPROTTI, ‘Le Ossa dei Caprotti. Una storia italiana’, Milan, 2024/3.
ID., Publications. Personalities: Guido Caprotti (1929-2012).
