“Carlo (…) would combine his ambitions as a cotton entrepreneur with a strong political passion. (…) with the Third War of Independence of 1866 against Austria, he did not hesitate...
After the Third War of Independence (1866), and in the years that followed, when the Italian economy, after some difficult years, experienced a happy expansion, the company’s radius of action expanded as far as the south of Italy, albeit with considerable difficulty, at least in the early days, due to the lack of a national market.
