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LUOGHI 14 Pietro Capuano, soprannominato Chantecler, con Ingrid Bergman. Inaugurata nel 1948, la prima boutique Chantecler si trovava in via Camerelle 51. Pietro Capuano, known as Chantecler, with Ingrid Bergman. The first Chantecler jewellery shop opened at Via Camerelle 51 in 1948. decantare bellezze e miti di Capri. Proprio come erano stati francesi, tedeschi e inglesi negli anni del Grand Tour. Per alcuni di questi americani, che gliene avevano fatto esplicita richiesta, un intraprendente gioielliere napoletano, Pietro Capuano, aveva fabbricato un giorno una campana di metallo e argento che era stata molto apprezzata (e altrettanto ben pagata). Riprodotta in miniatura, diventerà simbolo, portafortuna e monile ricercatissimo della gioielleria che Capuano aprirà nel 1947 in via Camerelle e che chiamerà con il suo soprannome, Chantecler, come il gallo della tradizione letteraria francese. La boutique di Chantecler Roberto Ciuni, profondo conoscitore dell’isola, della sua storia e dei suoi personaggi, ha scritto su Capuano-Chantecler pagine deliziose (I peccati di Capri) e illuminanti. Figlio di gioiellieri napoletani, Pietro veniva spedito dal padre a vendere pietre dure e preziose ai ricchi ospiti di Capri. Nel Ventennio, racconta Ciuni, la società mondana si divideva a Capri in due clan distinti: l’uno viveva intorno al generale Armando Diaz, napoletano, eroe della Prima Guerra e ministro di Mussolini; l’altro si beava alla corte di Tommaso Marinetti, il poeta del manifesto futurista. Per affari Capuano frequentava gli uni e gli altri, ma era evidente che il suo cuore batteva per i più allegri e fantasiosi marinettiani. Sfacciato, trasgressivo, provocatore nato, Pietro aveva imparato da Marinetti a prendere il sole nudo (e in anni più recenti, alla Canzone del Mare, per consentirglielo, gli Iacono lo isolavano con un separé). Un giorno si presentò in Piazzetta indossando un paio di pantaloni rossi, e fu scandalo. Un’altra si travestì da donna, e si cominciò a sospettarlo di omosessualità. Dal dopoguerra, la sua storia personale si intreccerà quasi quotidianamente con quella di Edda Ciano, da sempre amica e frequentatrice dell’isola. La figlia del Duce, morti tragicamente il marito Galeazzo Ciano e il padre, e confinata a Lipari dopo la Liberazione, ricevette un giorno una cartolina che più o meno recitava così: sappiate che a Capri avete un amico. Firmato, Pietro Capuano. Nel ARCHIVIO CHANTECLER Rome. But it is also low-key, tranquil, silent, and a wonderful place for a quiet stroll. Giorgio and Jenny At the beginning of the last century Villa Jenny stood in Via Camerelle. It was a white, twostorey house built by Giorgio Cerio, a doctor who had made his reputation in the United States, and the eldest son of Ignazio Cerio, “genius loci” of Capri. This house was the setting for a passionate love story. One day, at the house of friends, Giorgio Cerio met Jenny, the daughter of Marquis Enrico Ungaro, a prominent political figure and member of parliament. She was beautiful, and married. They fell madly in love and Jenny created a scandal by leaving her husband and even having her marriage annulled because, as the sentence read, it was “never consummated”. Giorgio and Jenny got married and went to live on Capri, in the small white villa that had just been finished in Via Camerelle. The island was magnificent, the climate mild, their love ardent. But Giorgio, who was used to success and the frenetic life in America, soon began to feel like a prisoner. He started to go to Rome, where he had no problem in building up a large, wellheeled clientele. And that’s not all. There he met Mabel Norman, a wealthy and attractive American painter, and lost his head over her. He was so enamoured that he left his wife, Capri and Rome, settling in the States with his new love. This was a tremendous blow for Jenny. One winter’s night, alone and desperate, she tried to commit suicide by throwing herself into the sea. She was saved when she was about to go under, numb with cold, and died of pneumonia a few days later. Villa Jenny remained closed and abandoned for decades. Home by jeep Via Camerelle experienced its second golden era at the end of the Second World War. After landing in Sicily and coming up through Italy to the Gulf of Naples, the Americans had set up headquarters on Capri, at the Quisisana to be precise. Their commander Colonel Woodward was quartered at Punta Tragara, and he would be driven home every day in a jeep, zooming along Via Camerelle. Meanwhile his officers swarmed through the streets, intent on discovering the island. In fact, they became its biggest sponsors worldwide and its best promoters: testimonials who sang the praises of Capri’s beauty and myths. Just as the French, Germans and English had done before them during the years of the Grand Tour. Some of these Americans had asked an enterprising Neapolitan jeweller named Pietro Capuano to make them a metal and silver bell that they were very happy with (and paid a lot for). It was later reproduced in miniature, and became the much-sought-after symbol, goodluck charm and talisman of the jewellery shop that Capuano opened in 1947 in Via
LUOGHI 16 1947, quando per la prima volta Edda tornerà a Capri, si presenterà in Piazzetta al braccio di Chantecler. E, come sempre, si siederà a un tavolino del Bar Tiberio. Ormai famoso, nel 1952 Capuano lasciò via Camerelle per trasferirisi con la sua gioielleria nel più centrale corso Vittorio Emanuele, quasi di fronte al Quisisana. La boutique è ancora lì, con le vetrine scintillanti e con la portantina all’ingresso diventata negli anni segno di riconoscimento della casa. Non è quella originale, però: raccontava Chantecler che un cliente americano che aveva fatto incetta di gioielli gli aveva chiesto di comprare anche quella. Come dirgli di no? Detto fatto, la rimpiazzò subito con un’altra. Mai più messa in vendita. Poi arriveranno gli anni Sessanta, quelli che hanno segnato per l’isola un nuovo rinascimento e il definitivo trionfo. Nel suo piccolo, lo testimonierà anche la strada che era stata anche di Diefenbach e di Cerio. Lì Tonino D’Emilio, parrucchiere bravissimo e intraprendente, aprì bottega nella speranza di tagliare e sistemare tutte le ciocche che contavano. Ci riuscirà presto: si rivolgeranno a lui la duchessa di Windsor e la principessa Soraya, Grace Kelly e Jackie Kennedy. Poi verranno le grandi boutique, i profumi, le scarpe e i vestiti, il cachemire e i libri d’arte, i caffè tranquilli e i ristorantini appartati. Ma anche gli oleandri e le cicale, la vista sulla Certosa e i pini, e oltre i pini il mare. Questa è Capri. E null’altro è Capri. Camerelle, and which was known by his nickname, Chantecler – like the cockerel in the French literary tradition. The Chantecler jewellery shop Roberto Ciuni, who knows the island, its history and its leading personalities like the back of his hand, has written some delightful and enlightening pieces on Capuano aka Chantecler, such as “I peccati di Capri”(“Capri’s Sins”). The son of Neapolitan jewellers, Pietro was sent by his father to sell semiprecious and precious stones to Capri’s wealthy visitors. During the Fascist period, Ciuni recounts, Capri high society was divided into two quite separate clans: one revolved around the Neapolitan general Armando Diaz, hero of the First World War and one of Mussolini’s ministers; the other took delight in being part of the court of Tommaso Marinetti, the poet and author of the Futurist Manifesto. For business reasons, Capuano frequented both, but it was obvious that his heart lay with the more upbeat, imaginative Marinetti types. Shameless, excessive and a born provocateur, Pietro followed Marinetti’s example and sunbathed in the nude (in later years, the Iaconos at the Canzone del Mare would put a screen around him so that he could do so there). One day, he appeared in the Piazzetta wearing red trousers and created a scandal. Another day, he was seen dressed as a woman and people began to think he was gay. From the beginning of the post-war period, his personal life was closely intertwined with that of Edda Ciano, a long-time friend and visitor to the island. After the tragic death of her husband Galeazzo Ciano and his father, the Duce’s daughter, who had been confined to Lipari following the Liberation, received a postcard with a message saying: that she had a friend on Capri. It was signed “Pietro Capuano”. In 1947, Edda returned to Capri for the first time, walked into the Piazzetta on Chantecler’s arm, then sat at one of the Bar Tiberio tables like she always did. In 1952 the then famous Capuano left Via Camerelle and opened his jewellery shop in the more central Corso Vittorio Emanuele, almost opposite the Quisisana. The store is still there, with its glittering window displays and the sedan chair in the entrance, which has become its symbol. But it’s not the original one. Chantecler used to tell the story that an American customer who had virtually bought the shop, also wanted to purchase the sedan. How could he say no? In fact, it was no sooner said than done, and the sedan chair was immediately replaced with another – which has never been for sale. Then came the Sixties, which signalled another renaissance for the island and its definitive triumph. The street associated with Diefenbach and Cerio was also part of this, in its own small way. There, a very talented and go-ahead hairdresser named Tonino D’Emilio opened a salon with a view to styling the locks of the jet set. He soon succeeded, and the Duchess of Windsor, Princess Soraya, Grace Kelly and Jackie Kennedy all came to him for their hairdos. Then came the luxury brand boutiques, the perfumes, the shoes and clothes, the cashmere and the art books, the quiet cafés and the small, secluded restaurants. But also the oleanders and the grasshoppers, the view of the Charterhouse of San Giacomo and the pines, and beyond the pines, the sea. This is Capri. This, and nothing else. U. D’ANIELLO - <strong>CAPRI</strong>ONLINE.COM
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