Uncle Claudio, the last of my father’s brothers, was born in 1938, 13 years after Bernardo and 9 years after Uncle Guido. According to a letter from his mother, my grandmother Marianne, he came into the world because his father, Grandpa Peppino, wanted a girl, but he certainly wasn’t disappointed by the third boy, blond and curly-haired like his brothers were when they were young.
The child grows up between Albiate, where the family home in Brianza is located, and Forte dei Marmi, where there is Villa Nadina, one of the most beautiful seaside houses in the area where people spend their holidays and which will be one of the most beloved places for him, having become a boy and a man.
Claudio developed a great passion for art and architecture, a family mania, you might say (great architects would frequent the Caprottis, restore their houses and design their supermarkets); he himself drew well and painted with good talent. Again from his grandmother Marianne’s letters, we know that he would have liked to enrol in the Faculty of Architecture, but his eldest son Bernardo, my father, intervened and vetoed: no kidding, you need a degree that is useful for a future entrepreneur. Claudio obeyed, and enrolled in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at Bocconi University. Art and painting, as always happened among the Caprotti family (see especially his great-great-grandfather Beppo Caprotti), remain as passions in his spare time.
Bibliography:
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ID., “Le Ossa dei Caprotti”. The Caprotti’s residences: Villa Nadina, Forte dei Marmi, 1960s. Cues from the book’.
ID., “Le Ossa dei Caprotti”. I Caprotti e la famiglia: Giuseppe with his uncle Guido and uncle Claudio Caprotti in Forte dei Marmi, 1966. Cues from the book’.
