“Albiate is where my family built its fortunes and my earliest memories are set there. Until I went to school we all lived together in the big family home, with dad, uncles and grandmother Marianne [Maire in Guido Caprotti], a Frenchwoman from Épinal, who guided us with the firmness of an army general. The house was more than just a home. Even today, all you have to do is walk down through the fields for no more than five hundred metres and, past the bridge over the Lambro river, you arrive at the abandoned textile factory that once made our wealth possible. (…)” (p. 17).
On the chapel adjacent to the villa read here.
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