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Giorgio Agnelli

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Giorgio Agnelli (29 November 1929 – 2 April 1965[1][2]) was a member of the Agnelli family.

Early life and family

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Born in Turin, Agnelli was the second son and sixth child of Virginia Agnelli (born Donna Virginia Bourbon del Monte) and of the industrialist Edoardo Agnelli. Until 1996, his older brother Gianni Agnelli was the head of Fiat S.p.A., which was founded by Giovanni Agnelli.[3] He studied at Harvard University in the United States. Unlike the other members of the family, he could not participate in industrial and financial activities due to a serious illness.[4][5] Considered a family rebel along with Edoardo Agnelli, the eldest child and only son of Gianni and Marella Agnelli who also did not participate in the family business and died by suicide at the age of 46, he was described as caring about his family and suffered from being marginalized.[6]

Death

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Agnelli died at age 35 in a Swiss clinic in Prangins at Lake Geneva, where he had been treated for a long time.[7] According to the poet Marta Vio, who was his companion for ten years, he had long suffered from schizophrenia. They met in 1946 on the beach of Forte dei Marmi, the holiday resort of the Agnelli family.[8] Giorgio's official cause of death has never been confirmed by the family. Marta Vio has Giorgio committed suicide by jumping from the clinic's window.[9] According to a family member, Giorgio died in the clinic as a result of sleep therapy, a common treatment for schizophrenia in the 1960s before the development of pharmaceutical cures.[10]

References

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  1. ^ La Stampa - 7 aprile 1965
  2. ^ Clark, Jennifer (2024). L'ultima dinastia. La saga della famiglia Agnelli da Giovanni a John (in Italian). Milan: Solferino. p. 249. ISBN 978-88-282-1455-7.
  3. ^ Furini, Gigi (11 October 2005). "L'ombra di un tragico destino sulla famiglia Agnelli". La Repubblica (in Italian). ISSN 0390-1076. Retrieved 18 February 2023 – via Gelocal.
  4. ^ Ferrante, Marco (2007). Casa Agnelli. Storie e personaggi dell'ultima dinastia italiana (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. pp. 184–189. ISBN 978-88-04-56673-1.
  5. ^ Mecucci, Gabriella; Ripa di Meana, Marina (2010). Virginia Agnelli. Madre e farfalla (in Italian). Argelato: Minerva Edizioni. pp. 263–275. ISBN 978-88-7381-307-1.
  6. ^ Stefanutto Rosa, Stefano (27 November 2010). "Giovanni Piperno: i ribelli della famiglia Agnelli". Cinecittà News (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  7. ^ La Stampa - 7 aprile 1965
  8. ^ Mecucci, Gabriella; Ripa di Meana, Marina (2010). Virginia Agnelli. Madre e farfalla (in Italian). Argelato: Minerva Edizioni. p. 223. ISBN 978-88-7381-307-1.
  9. ^ Ferrante, Marco (2007). Casa Agnelli. Storie e personaggi dell'ultima dinastia italiana (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. p. 188. ISBN 978-88-04-56673-1.
  10. ^ Clark, Jennifer (2024). L'ultima dinastia. La saga della famiglia Agnelli da Giovanni a John (in Italian). Milan: Solferino. p. 259. ISBN 978-88-282-1455-7.

Further reading

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  • Clark, Jennifer (2024). L'ultima dinastia. La saga della famiglia Agnelli da Giovanni a John (in Italian). Milan: Solferino. ISBN 978-88-282-1455-7.
  • Ferrante, Marco (2007). Casa Agnelli: storie e personaggi dell'ultima dinastia italiana (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN 978-88-04-56673-1.
  • Friedman, Alan (1988). Agnelli and the Network of Italian Power. London: Mandarin Paperback (Octopus Publishing Group). ISBN 0-7493-0093-0.
  • Galli, Giancarlo (2003). Gli Agnelli. Il tramonto di una dinastia (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN 88-04-51768-9.
  • Mola di Nomaglio, Gustavo (1998). Gli Agnelli. Storia e genealogia di una grande famiglia piemontese dal XVI secolo al 1866 (in Italian). Turin: Centro Studi Piemontesi. ISBN 88-8262-099-9.
  • Moncalvo, Gigi (2012). Agnelli segreti: peccati, passioni e verità nascoste dell'ultima "famiglia reale" italiana (in Italian). Florence: Vallecchi. ISBN 978-88-8427-236-2.
  • Montecalvo, Gigi (2022). Agnelli Coltelli (in Italian). Florence: Vallecchi. ISBN 978-88-25-20348-6.
  • Ori, Angiolo Silvio (1996). Storia di una dinastia: gli Agnelli e la Fiat (in Italian). Rome: Editori Riuniti. ISBN 88-35-94059-1.
  • Parisi, Antonio (2011). I misteri di casa Agnelli (in Italian). Rome: Aliberti Editore. ISBN 978-8-8742-4697-7.
  • "Three Harvard Students Escape Injury in Crash". Lewiston Evening Journal. 19 April 1950. p. 4. Retrieved 21 February 2023 – via Google Books.
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