Overview
In Giuseppe Volpi: Power, Wealth and the Making of Modern Venice, author Charles Blundell tells the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of the man who reinvented Venice into what it is today.
In Giuseppe Volpi: Power, Wealth and the Making of Modern Venice, author and alumnus of Venice’s Ca’ Foscari University Charles Blundell tells the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of the man who reinvented Venice into what it is today. While accumulating massive wealth by creating a global business empire which made him one of the richest men in Italy, he rose to become the most powerful player In his native city of Venice. And then the fall: his fatal mistake of allying himself with Mussolini and the Fascist regime. As if in some Greek tragedy, Volpi soon found himself attacked on all sides, with tragic consequences.
In Giuseppe Volpi: Power, Wealth and the Making of Modern Venice, author and alumnus of Venice’s Ca’ Foscari University Charles Blundell tells the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of the man who reinvented Venice into what it is today. While accumulating massive wealth by creating a global business empire which made him one of the richest men in Italy, he rose to become the most powerful player In his native city of Venice. And then the fall: his fatal mistake of allying himself with Mussolini and the Fascist regime. As if in some Greek tragedy, Volpi soon found himself attacked on all sides, with tragic consequences.
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