Giuseppe Caprotti and his studies: Paris and the meaning of research

.. do I want to stay among books and archive documents, alone, seeing no one or almost no one, for long days? Or do I want to work confronting the real world every day? The answer would come years later; teaching I would have liked. But even the balance of my experience 'in the real world', as Kundera writes, will not have been 'a dream': Esselunga was a great passion, I had fun and I did, to use an Anglicism, 'good things'.

New Princes will buy Carrefour Italia supermarkets: the difference between cheer and reality

One cannot improvise as a retailer and, above all, it is not always the case that aggregating several realities, with different cultures, brings strength: the acquisition of Newlat reminds me of the events of Standa and those of Auchan-Conad, but also of the Carrefour- Promodes merger or the events of Walgreens with Boots. Not to mention the lesson of the bankruptcy of Sears or that of the closure of Dominick’s for manifest incompetence

The Caprotti marriages: Guido and Maria Luisa Austoni

A few months after the marriage of his elder brother Bernardo to Giorgina Venosta, the second brother, Guido in 1959, married Maria Luisa (known as Lu) Austoni, daughter of Benedetto, a surgeon and medical luminary, in the Milanese church, something that also merited the couple a small article in a newspaper. Friends and relatives surround the couple, who seem serene, and will remain so for a few years; but this marriage too, after a few years and two daughters, Bendetta and Elisabetta, will end.

The Caprotti marriages: Bernardo Caprotti and Giorgina Venosta

Bernardo and Giorgina met in Forte dei Marmi, and were married in Milan in November 1958, in the church of San Fedele packed with guests and, outside the gates, a crowd of onlookers. She was 17, he twice that age. The photo album shows smiles and joy around the newlyweds; the premises are all there, but they will not be fulfilled. The couple will separate despite the birth of two children, Giuseppe and Violetta.