The family tree allows us to trace our origins, the links between the different generations. That of the Caprotti family is a journey through time that helps us enrich our understanding of the text and get to know the many protagonists of the book Le Ossa dei Caprotti.
In the picture, smiling in a single painting created for their 25th wedding anniversary, are my great-grandfather Umberto Quintavalle at the time of the wedding and in uniform, his wife Adele Portaluppi, also in the dual role of young bride and current wife and mother, their twin daughters Ida and Luisa (my grandmother), and their son Ferruccio, known as ‘Illo’.
Bibliographic references:
P.R. WILSON, The clock factory. Women and work at Magneti Marelli in fascist Italy, Milan, 2003
