“At Villa Nadina, the family home in Versilia that later went to my uncle Claudio, resided (…) the latter’s first wife, Paola Albera – sister of Giuliana, my father’s second wife – who had then remarried the financier Orazio Bagnasco, former vice-president of Banco Ambrosiano at the time of Roberto Calvi” (p. 286).
The villa, which had been bought by my grandfather Peppino, was one of the most prestigious on the Via Leonardo da Vinci.
“Designed by the Roman architect Tullio Rossi in 1936 in the style of a villa-farm with an immense park (…)’, when his father died in 1952, the villa was inherited by the youngest of the three Caprotti sons, Claudio Caprotti. He himself recalled how ‘that property surrounded by greenery was for several lustrums a sort of academy of letters and arts. A true cultural coterie where the best of the bourgeoisie took turns on holiday (…)’. When Claudio separated from his wife Paola Albera, he left her the villa, which was eventually sold to a Russian tycoon.
Since then, the house where my mother and father decided to marry, the home of so many childhood summers, has no longer been part of the Caprotti story.
As in many other affairs of this family I learned of the sale from the newspapers.
(quotations from F. NAVARI, Sold the Caprotti house to the Russians: the Esselunga ‘dynasty’ leaves the Fortress, in “La Nazione – Viareggio”, 22 August 2018).
Dmitry Bosov the Russian billionaire who bought the villa in 2019 (for more than €18mn) committed suicide (or was killed) the following year:
Bosov had five children:
Villa Nadina last year and lay in a state of neglect.
