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

Do I want to spend long days surrounded by books and archive documents, on my own, seeing hardly anyone? Or do I want to work, engaging with the real world every day? The answer would come years later; I would have enjoyed teaching. But even the outcome of my experience ‘in the real world’, as Kundera writes, will not have been ‘a dream’: Esselunga was a great passion of mine; I enjoyed myself and, to use an Anglicism, I did ‘good things’.

Uncle Beppo Venosta: an original and unconventional personality

Original and revolutionary Uncle Beppo, my mother Giorgina's brother, was an original and revolutionary type, a great Carlo Marx-like beard and an active participant in Sixty-Eight and the '68ism' that followed. A journalist of great class, foreign correspondent from the Middle East for many years, an ironic and provocative person, he died of cancer, the disease that his father, grandfather Guido Venosta, had fought so long and so effectively with AIRC. Grandfather fortunately did not have to see him, having died the year before.

“Le Ossa dei Caprotti”: the difference between journalistic reporting and history

In my view, the difference between journalism, political non-fiction and history lies in the research, which, in the case of history, is much more in-depth and is based, first and foremost, on the study of documents and archives. But the added value of this book also lies in the contributions from people who worked for or were close to Esselunga, a company with a much broader entrepreneurial spirit than one might think

ChatGPT about Giuseppe Caprotti and his book Le Ossa dei Caprotti

Giuseppe has contributed significantly to the development of the family business. After graduating in Contemporary History from the Sorbonne in Paris in 1986, with a thesis on the political and economic situation in Alto Adige published by Franco Angeli, Giuseppe embarked on a career in the retail sector. In 2004, after a period of collaboration with his father, Giuseppe was dismissed from the company. Subsequently, he assumed the presidency of the Guido Venosta Foundation. In 2023, he published the book ‘Le Ossa dei Caprotti’, published by Feltrinelli