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Manifattura Caprotti: safety at work in a textile company

Caprotti, like Marelli (to whom they would later be related), were undoubtedly forerunners, and in many ways can be counted among the ‘unexpected entrepreneurs’ because they present aspects of modernity, of planning, of ideas that we would not have suspected in people who have been producing textiles since the days of looms in peasant homes, and are therefore concerned with a cold and impersonal thing called ‘progress’

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Giuseppe Caprotti guest of the Monza Brianza Rotary Club. The guest presented his latest book, Le Ossa dei Caprotti.

Today, Giuseppe Caprotti is also the president of the Guido Venosta Foundation, his maternal grandfather. The foundation was established with the aim of spreading the highest ideals of culture and solidarity and is actually involved in four areas: health protection and scientific research, solidarity, promotion of culture, environmental protection

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The Caprotti family and the ‘Years of Lead’ (1960 – 1980): Renato Vallanzasca

These days, supermarkets are a favourite target for theft and robbery because they are easy to access and always full of cash, open-air banks, you could say: Esselunga now has many shops, not only in Milan, and every night they call Dad to tell him about the day's takings and the robberies that have taken place

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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

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Giuseppe Caprotti explorer in Yemen and his Arabic manuscripts at the Ambrosiana Library

Giuseppe Caprotti was born in Besana Brianza (MB) in the mid-19th century. One of the very few Westerners resident in Yemen, he established fruitful contacts with the local populations. In over 30 years of his stay, he amassed a rich and extremely valuable collection of manuscripts and antiquities. The most important part ended up in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan...