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Place of Birth: Venice, Venetian Province, Italy
About Giovanni Volpi
- Count Giovanni Volpi di Misurata (born 1938 in Venice) was an automobile racing manager.
- He inherited a fortune, at the age of 24, from his father, Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, a politician financier and founder of the renowned Venice Film Festival. Giovanni Volpi started a racing team, Scuderia Serenissima, and quickly became one of Ferrari's best customers.
- Following the great walkout, Volpi felt the wrath of Enzo Ferrari who refused to sell him the two 250 GTOs he requested.
- Volpi aligned himself with ATS, providing the financing for the ex-Ferrari company. During World War II, Giovanni Volpi's father served in Mussolini's cabinet as the minister of Finance and one of his chief advisors.
- He designed several of Mussolini's austerity measures and escaped prosecution after the war.
- His father also acquired and restored Villa Barbaro at Maser, Italy, built originally for the Barbaro family.
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