page_title: Antonio Bernocchi
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Antonio Bernocchi / Life
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Monumentale di Milano Edicola Antonio Bernocchi (1936); Arch. Alessandro Minali, scultore Gianino Castiglioni
context_page_description: Antonio Bernocchi was an Italian industrialist, who built up a successful textile factory at Legnano, in Lombardy in northern Italy.
context_section_description: Bernocchi was born on 17 January 1859 at Castellanza in the province of Varese, in Lombardy in northern Italy. He was one of three sons of Rodolfo Bernocchi and Angela Colombo.
  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 textile bleaching works at Legnano. In 1898 the family started a textile business at Legnano, which was successful and grew substantially. Factories were opened at Nerviano, Cerro Maggiore and Angera. Bernocchi became sindaco (mayor) of Legnano. In 1929 he was made a Grande Ufficiale ("grand officer") of the Order of the Crown of Italy. In the same year he was made a Senator of the Kingdom of Italy. He died in Milan in the following year, on 8 December 1930. He is buried in the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano, in a large monumental tomb by the architect Alessandro Minali and the sculptor Giannino Castiglioni.
caption: Tomb of Antonio Bernocchi in the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano, 1936
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