Why have tomatoes lost the taste they once had?
Our fruit and vegetables are less and less nutritious (and inedible)
Giuseppe Caprotti on Le Ossa dei Caprotti: ‘A book that allowed me to make peace with the past and with my father’. On 26 October, at Assolombarda Monza
I am grateful to jury president Gianna Parri for having been included among the finalists. Beyond the third place achieved, the support and appreciation of the jurors and readers in the room was comforting
The Caprotti family and Coop: the ‘war’ on several fronts
(…) Let’s start thinking of a dossier that shows how, from both the members’ and the social point of view, cooperatives are enterprises like any other. It follows that the favourable conditions from which they benefit are state aid. We set up an internal working group and (…) gather all the necessary documentation to support our conviction. The dossier will then be taken to Brussels by Federdistribuzione and will change, at least in part, the taxation of cooperatives. In their defence even Massimo D’Alema is moving …
The Caprotti family and relatives: the formidable Aunt Virginia, sister of great-great-grandfather Giuseppe
Aunt Virginia was the family peacemaker at a time of great feuds: the good work of keeping at bay two men who were able to tear each other apart at work whether they were competitors or partners had to be continued successfully by spouses and nephews, as the two, in their older years, used to spend Christmas together and with relatives
Presentation of the book “Le Ossa dei Caprotti” for Banca Generali, 23 October 2024
An exceptional evening for the quality of the speakers
The Caprotti family, innovation and tradition in an Italian factory: workers from San Vittore prison
When, in the early post-unification years, the Caprottis built their first large factory in the true sense of the term, eventually finding themselves with thousands of square metres of space, they were initially not quite clear what to put in it. They probably envisaged a kind of ‘centralised manufacturing’, and to this end they purchased various machines by turning to various manufacturers, including the Milanese prison of San Vittore whose director, Eugenio Cicognani, was personally passionate about and invented a newly developed regulator loom, built by the inmates.
The Caprotti family, innovation and tradition in an Italian manufacture: Albiate and Switzerland
Bernardo Caprotti, an agricultural owner, founded Giuseppe Caprotti’s Bernardo Caprotti cotton weaving company on his land in Ponte Albiate. Caprotti’s company was still based on an almost pre-industrial production system: few simple machines, many warehouses, worker-farmers weaving mainly at home. In 1866 there were about 1500 of them. However, the great industrial revolution that would transform Europe was underway…
Exhibition: the mechanics of Manifattura Caprotti
The collection contains about 100 industrial drawings, some of them very beautiful, all of them interesting. These images tell the story of Manifattura Caprotti and, in 2011, were the subject of an exhibition
De Cecco, Abruzzo pasta at bar for trade fraud
The affair is not new to the chronicles even if, as in many unpleasant situations involving big brands, it has never been reported by ‘important’ newspapers. For this reason, as well as for the sake of reporting, we report it
The Caprottis and the fabrics of Manifattura Caprotti
Solid bleu linings/Oil-dyed linings/Oil-dyed men’s fillets/Solid-coloured overstretched linings/Common linings, and these are most commonly used, especially if they are beautiful in design and colour and reasonably priced
