“Great-grandfather Bernardo has three brothers and with one of them, Emilio, three years younger (he was born in 1871), relations often prove not to be easy. (…). Bernardo [founded] a company competing with the Caprotti family, while continuing to work in the original company. Thus, a parallel adventure developed with the Manifattura [Caprotti] (…), the Manifattura della Valle Camonica (…) in Ponte Barcotto, near Lovere (…) [which competed] with the Società Anonima Cotonificio Caprotti, the company that Emilio and Bernardo Caprotti himself had founded in 1907 (…). The two brothers, therefore, lived in a continuous alternation of hate and love, rivalry and quiet moments, which drove them to make apparently senseless moves. (…) It ended with an apparent peace but with the company already agonising in 1913, curiously enough the same year in which the Manifattura della Valle Camonica was forced to close its doors to avoid bankruptcy. The Cotonificio would be liquidated in 1923 when it had long existed only on paper. The two brothers will take different paths. Emilio founded a spinning mill between Monza and Cantù, in Giussano, which also went bankrupt a few years later. (…)”. (pp. 27 – 31)’.
“Following the difficulties of the first company, on 25 January 1930 he set up the limited partnership Emilio Caprotti e Figlio (…), destined to fail definitively in 1933 after a long and heavy criminal case. (see G. CAPROTTI, The Caprotti family, article in www.giuseppecaprotti.it, 30/11/2022).
