Edoardo Agnelli (

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

, 18 July 1831 – 7 November 1871) was an Italian entrepreneur and

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Biography

Edoardo Carlo Tommaso Agnelli, better known as Edoardo Agnelli, was the youngest son of Giuseppe Francesco Agnelli and Anna Maria Maggia. He was the father of

Giovanni Agnelli Giovanni Agnelli (13 August 1866 – 16 December 1945) was an Italian businessman, who founded Fiat car manufacturing in 1899. Early life The son of Edoardo Agnelli and Aniceta Frisetti, he was born in 1866 in Villar Perosa, a small town near ...

, co-founder of

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. At birth he was baptised at home with the Superior's permission and six days later in the Church of San Carlo in Turin. His godparents were Tommaso Ferrero and Anna Maria Chiarini. Edoardo participated in the administration of

Villar Perosa Villar Perosa (Occitan ''Lhi Vialars''; French: ''Grand-Villars'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin. Villar Perosa borders the following municipalit ...

and was member of the city board since 1866. He became a protagonist of the city life in the Turin of his time. He was also active in the cultural field by joining the "Society for Promotion of the Fine Arts".

Marriage and descendants

In 1865, Edoardo married

Aniceta Frisetti Aniceta Frisetti (Turin, 1846 – Turin, 28 October 1920) was an Italian philanthropist. She became a member of the Agnelli family when she married Edoardo Agnelli. She was the daughter of Knight Giovanni Frisetti and Anna Lavista. Her father belon ...

, who belonged to a wealthy family and with whom he had three children: *

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, co-founder of

, who was born in

on 13 August 1866 and died in

on 16 December 1945. * Carolina, who was born in the house of Via Cernaia 30 in Turin on 11 April 1868 and died at an early age. * Felicita Carola Anna Giustina Maria, who was born in Villar Perosa on 3 November 1869 and died at a very young age on 22 February 1871.Archivio dello stato civile di Torino, ''Atti di morte'', 1871, atto 631, ufficio 1, Parte 1.

Biography

Marriage and descendants

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