Cristiana Brandolini d'Adda

Cristiana Brandolini d'Adda, Contessa di Valmareno ( Agnelli; 16 February 1927 – 23 June 2026) was an Italian socialite. She was a member of the wealthy Agnelli family by birth and the noble Brandolini family by marriage.

Background Cristiana Agnelli was born on 16 February 1927 in Turin. Her father was Edoardo Agnelli, an industrialist, and her mother was Donna Virginia Bourbon del Monte, a noblewoman. One of her granddaughters is Coco Brandolini d'Adda, whose mother was the ambassador of the Valentino style to the world and whose sister Bianca Brandolini d'Adda had an on-off relationship with Lapo Elkann, and her father descended from Philip IV of France and Maria Theresa of Austria.

Career Brandolini d'Adda was photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1951.

Personal life and death At the age of 19, Agnelli moved to Rome with her sister Susanna to study art. At a party in Cortina d'Ampezzo, where she was visiting her sister Clara, she met Brandolino Brandolini d'Adda, Count of Valmareno, nicknamed Brando. He was the son of Carlo Brandolini d'Adda, Count of Valmareno, the president of the Municipal Company of Lagoon Waterborne Transport, and Maria José Alvares Pereira de Melo. In 1947, they were married in a Catholic ceremony at the Basilica of St. Bartholomew on the Island, Tiber Island, in Rome.

Her husband was a descendant of Brandolino Brandolini, and of Erasmo Stefano of Narni by marriage of Brandolino's son Tiberto to Erasmo's daughter. Brandolino and Erasmo were close friends, and in memory of this friendship, the coat of arms of the Brandolini family still bears the depiction of the braids of the famous captain of Narni. They had four sons: Tiberto, who was nicknamed Ruy, Leonello, Nuno, and Brandino. Paris, and Geneva but mainly spent time at their country estate, Vistorta. Her husband died in 2005, at the age of 85.