Antonio Bernocchi

Antonio Bernocchi (17 January 1859 – 8 December 1930) was an Italian industrialist, who built up a successful textile factory at Legnano, in Lombardy.

Bernocchi was born on 17 January 1859 at Castellanza in the province of Varese, in Lombardy in northern Italy.

[3] He is buried in the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano, in a large monumental tomb by the architect Alessandro Minali and the sculptor Giannino Castiglioni.

After the demoralising Italian defeat at Caporetto in November 1917 he was the first to donate to a new charitable organisation for the benefit of war veterans, La Patria Riconoscente, which would later become the Opera Nazionale Combattenti.

[5]: 56  His most substantial donation was a bequest of five million lire to the city of Milan for the construction of the Palazzo dell'Arte, home of the Triennale exhibition, in the Parco Sempione.

The Bernocchi factory at Legnano
Tomb of Antonio Bernocchi in the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano , 1936
Commemorative plaque on the Palazzo dell'Arte