“ Jewish Hungarian banker Ernesto Krauss”

“One of Cohen-Solal’s scoops involved finding a brother of Leo who now lives in San Francisco under the name of George Crane, from whom she learned a lot about Leo’s father, Ernesto Krausz. Crane told her about the man’s successful career as a banker in Trieste and Vienna, and how, though not a Finzi Contini, Leo Castelli née Krausz got a taste of the high life as a youth thanks to his father’s financial success. He also told her about "the meltdown" of the father’s wealth in 1929, followed by professional exile to Budapest during the later years of the Mussolini regime,”