“The Feltrinelli family in Gargnano, the tale
of a dynasty. In 1892, the sons of "lumber magnate," Faustino
Feltrinelli, built what we know today as Villa Feltrinelli in Gargnano, on Lake Garda. The Villa was built as one of the "summer
seats" of a lumber empire that stretched from the woods of Northern Italy,
Austria, Hungary and Turkey
to the stock market and banking centers of Milan. At the time the villa was being built,
the two Feltrinelli brothers, Angelo and Giacomo, were busy developing new
businesses and expanding the budding "empire" that their father
Faustino had begun in 1846. They shared the use of the villa in the summer
months, while Angelo stayed in Gargnano most of the year, taking a keen
interest in its development.”
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