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.

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'.

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

Between journalism, political non-fiction and history, the difference, in my opinion, lies in the research, which in the latter, 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 was also the contribution of people who worked or were close to Esselunga, a company with much more widespread entrepreneurship than you 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