Giorgina Venosta (1940 – 2021)

Giorgina Venosta (1940-2021) daughter of Guido Venosta and Luisa Quintavalle. She married Bernardo Caprotti by whom she had me (1960) and Violetta (1962). She separated from him shortly afterwards, became a respected art expert and married Aldo Bassetti, with whom she also shared a commitment to the FGV, founded in memory of her father by his second wife, Carlo Venosta.

Carla Venosta: Birth of the Guido Venosta European Foundation

After the death of my grandfather Guido Venosta (1998), his widow, Carla Fossati Bellani Venosta, decided to give continuity to her husband's thinking by creating the 'Fondazione Europea Guido Venosta, l'uomo contro il cancro' (European Foundation Guido Venosta, the man against cancer) in 2000, which she was actively involved in until 2017. Since 2020, I have been President and Treasurer of the Foundation.

Giorgina Venosta : “Ragazze del Forte, the most beautiful ladies of today”, by Lina Sotis, Sette, 5 July 2001

Lina Sotis, a journalist and writer, always present in Milanese salons, also a 'girl from the Forte' in the golden age, was a dear friend of my mother Giorgina Venosta, and in an article in July 2001 she painted a delightful portrait of my mother as a young man, complete with a small episode related to the actor Renato Salvatori, a protagonist of the great post-war period of Italian cinema, but first a lifeguard on the beaches of Forte dei Marmi, and madly in love with the 'seductive and shy' Giorgina Venosta.