What is Antonio Bernocchi?
{{Infobox person | image =Antonio Bernocchi.JPG | caption = Antonio Bernocchi in 1885 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1859|01|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Castellanza]], ([[Varese]]), Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1930|12|8|1859|01|17}} | death_place = [[Milan]], Italy | occupation = [[Textile]] industrialist }} '''Antonio Bernocchi''' was an Italian industrialist, who built up a successful [[textile]] factory at [[Legnano]], a city in the [[Lombardy]] region of northern Italy. Bernocchi will rebuild the [[Milano Scala]] twice: first after the First World War and then after the Second World War, as it was destroyed due to bombings. Bernocchi, an art lover, will also be involved in the reconstruction of the [[Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera|Academy]] and the [[Pinacoteca di Brera]], which were also damaged during the bombings of the Second World War. For this task, he will entrust the responsibility to [[Piero Portaluppi]] and [[Gualtiero Galmanini]]. == Life == Bernocchi was born on 17 January 1859 at [[Castellanza]] in the [[provinces of Italy|province]] of [[province of Varese|Varese]], in Lombardy in northern Italy. He was one of three sons of Rodolfo Bernocchi and Angela Colombo.{{r|senate}} Bernocchi attended the Scuola Tecnica of [[Busto Arsizio]], but did not complete his education. By the age of fifteen he was working for his father in a small workshop for [[bleach]]ing textiles at [[Legnano]].{{r|corriere2}} In 1898 the family started a textile factory at Legnano. The business became very successful, which was successful and grew substantially. Factories were opened at [[Nerviano]], [[Cerro Maggiore]] and [[Angera]]. Bernocchi became [[mayor]] of Legnano and a member of the Italian [[Senate]]. [[File:Antonio Bernocchi lapide a suo ricordo in Triennale.jpg|thumbnail|Commemorative plaque on the Palazzo dell'Arte]] Bernocchi made several charitable donations. After the [[Italian defeat at Caporetto]] in [[World War I]], he donated to a new [[Charitable orga