Relations Countess Marina Cicogna, the new 'friend' of King Juan Carlos
Relationships Florinda Bolkan, the explosive Brazilian that Countess Cicogna loved
Before the advent of sound, the United States and Italy were the main producers of silent films. As this cultural industry developed, in the transalpine country,
Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata
extended the tentacles of his businesses sponsored under the fascist mandate of Mussollini in which he held the positions of first governor of the Italian Tripolitania (Libya) between 1921-1925, Minister of Finance (1925-28)
under Mussolini
or President of the Venice Biennale (1930-43). One of his first achievements was to negotiate the debt of his country with the allied powers after World War I.
Aware of making Italian culture known to the whole world, together with Antonio Maraini (sculptor) and Luciano de Feo (journalist),
he came up with the idea of creating a sample in which the best films in the world would be exhibited
where American stars and other luminaries Europeans could show off their mystery. Benito Mussolini gave him his approval. The Count of Misurata, a title granted by King Vittorio Emanuele III of Savoy, had
accumulated a vast fortune
with his investment and industrial companies.
Although he did not come from a wealthy family, this
highly intelligent Freemason
wove an important network of contacts at the beginning of the 20th century with King Nicholas I of Montenegro, Milovan Milovanovic (Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia) and with the banker Bernardino Nogara. He created the Società Adriatica di Elettricità, which
produced and supplied electricity to Venice
and much of the Emilia Romagna region, powered the Port of Marghera, and founded several railway lines.
Mussolini was fascinated by the idea and, in 1932,
the world's first film festival was created,
the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia. The film
The Man and the Monster
, by Rouben Mamoulian and interpreted by Frederic March and Miriam Hopkins,
inaugurated a contest in which there were neither awards nor stars
, but at Giuseppe Volpi's convenience, it was held in one of its properties, the Excelsior Palace hotel Hotel, which would later become the nerve center of Fellini's Dolce Vita where
Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Anita Ekberg and Franco Nero were seen
. In what is now the five-star swimming pool, the Italian nobleman put up a screen to watch the movies. In 1937 the Palazzo del Cinema was inaugurated on the Lido, where the festival's core is today.
Giuseppe Volpi benefited from the regime
as Finance Minister by launching different austerity measures to the Italian people who, as of the
crash of 29,
saw that their future was going to fade to black.
He married
Albina Annunziana
, whom his intimates called Nerina Pisani, daughter of the most important collector and art dealer at the end of the 19th century in Florence.
They had two daughters
,
Marina
(she married Prince Carlo Maurizio de Poggio Suasa with whom she had her daughter, the actress Esmeralda Ruspoli) and
Anna Maria
, who said "yes, I want" to Count
Cesare Cicogna
.
Marina Cicogna and actor Joel Schumacher.GTRES
From that union was born Countess Marina Cicogna, a great art lover considered the
most powerful producer in Europe.
Not surprisingly, she
produced
Luis Buñuel's
Belle de Jour
,
which won the Venice Film Festival in 1967. Since her birth, the aristocrat has always captured the interest of the international social press for her
bisexuality
.
Her first boyfriend was Alfonso de Borbón
-future husband of Carmen Martínez-Bordiú-, she had romances with
Alain Delon and Warren Beatty
, but her two great passions were the actress Florinda Bolkan, with whom she was twenty years, and
Benedetta,
whom you have adopted for tax and inheritance reasons. His photographic talent is beyond question. It is one of the most complete views of
the 20th century
star system
with its portraits of Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, the Agnelli, Visconti and Henry Fonda. She was close friends with Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.
His second wife was the Algerian Nathalie El Kanoni,
Lili for friends, who in turn was the daughter of the prestigious French jeweler Jacques Lacloche. In 1938
his son Giovanni Volpi was born
, currently
one of the richest Italian men
, who married three years ago in Madrid with
Dominique Rizzo, a close friend of Carmen Martínez-Bordiú
, who served as godmother. She is the widow of the photographer and furniture designer Willy Rizzo, who so many times photographed Hollywood stars for
Paris Match
,
Vogue
or
Marie Claire
and who together with his ex-wife, actress Elsa Martinelli, formed one of the couples more
cool
of the Dolce Vita.
The
fortune immense Giuseppe Volpi
allowed him to
buy
Villa Barbaro
, one of the most emblematic properties Palladian style in Maser (Treviso) and Venice invested in the Palazzo Vendramin and the Palazzo Volpi in Venice since his daughter Marina distributed meals to most needy.
The
Volpi Cup for
best actor and actress at the Venice Film Festival, which closes on September 11, honors his memory.
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