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Ignazio Florio Sr.
Ignazio Florio Sr. (Palermo, 16 December 1838 – Palermo, 17 May 1891) was an Italian entrepreneur and politician, member of the rich Florio economic dynasty, one of the wealthiest Italian families during the late 19th century. Biography The son of Vincenzo Florio Sr., the founder of the entrepreneurial Florio family dynasty, and of Giulia Portalupi, Ignazio was born in Palermo on 17 December 1838. After the death of his father, in 1868, he resolved the problems of the division of the inheritance that could have meant the liquidation of the flourishing enterprise.Florio, Ignazio, senior
by Simone Candela, Treccani Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 48 (1997)
The other heirs, his sisters Giuseppina and Angelina, were not interested in the family businesses and preferred the ...
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Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is in the northwest of the island of Sicily, by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The city was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians as ("flower"). Palermo then became a possession of Carthage. Two Greek colonies were established, known collectively as ; the Carthaginians used this name on their coins after the 5th centuryBC. As , the town became part of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, Empire for over a thousand years. From 831 to 1072 the city was under History of Islam in southern Italy, Arab rule in the Emirate of Sicily when the city became the capital of Sicily for t ...
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Senate Of The Kingdom Of Italy
The Senate of the Kingdom of Italy () was the upper house of the bicameral parliament of the Kingdom of Italy, officially created on 4 March 1848, acting as an evolution of the original Subalpine Senate. It was replaced on 1 January 1948 by the present-day Senate of the Republic. All of its members were appointed by the King. History The Senate of the Kingdom of Italy rose to national prominence in 1860, following the Unification of Italy, as the direct successor of the Subalpine Senate of the Kingdom of Sardinia, with the addition of members drawn from the territories obtained during the Second Italian War of Independence and the Expedition of the Thousand. The Senate was initially based at the Palazzo Madama in Turin until 1864, when it was moved to the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Finally, in 1871, it was moved to the Palazzo Madama in Rome. During the fascist regime, there was no "fascistisation" (''fascistizzazione'') of the Senate equivalent to that carried ou ...
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1838 Births
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Businesspeople From Palermo
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Members Of The Senate Of The Kingdom Of Italy
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19th-century Italian Businesspeople
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of ...
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Florio Family
The Florio family is a prominent entrepreneurial Italian family who started many lucrative activities in Sicily involving above all the exportation of Sicilian products (such as Marsala wine) in the nineteenth century, in some ways redeeming Sicily from feudal immobility.
Treccani Dizionario di Economia e Finanza (2012) (retrieved 10 April 2018)
The family extended its interests to shipping, shipbuilding, fisheries, mining, metallurgy and ceramics.L'Ora: la sua storia
Agave (Contributo allo studio delle fonti della storia dell'arte in Italia nel Novecento - Università degli Studi di Palermo)


Founder

The founder of the dynasty was
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Giulia Florio
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Monument To Ignazio Florio, Palermo
The Monument to Ignazio Florio is a bronze monumental sculpture, dedicated to the Sicilian industrialist, erected in 1909 on Piazza Florio, in Palermo, Sicily. History The bronze statue of Ignazio Florio Senior (1838 - 1891) was commissioned by a committee of workers. The design was by the architect G. Damiani Almeyda, and the bronze statue sculpted by Benedetto Civiletti and stands on a marble plinth. At the unveiling, three hundred workers from the Florio factory in Marseille were present. A similar monument had been built in 1896 in Favignana by sculptor Francesco Cocchiara. A marble monument dedicated to his father Vincenzo Florio Senior is located in front of the Palazzo Forcella De Seta, facing the Foro Italico Foro Italico is a sports complex in Rome, Italy, on the slopes of Monte Mario. It was built between 1928 and 1938 as the Foro Mussolini (literally Mussolini's Forum) under the design of Enrico Del Debbio and, later, Luigi Moretti. Inspired by t ... at the int ...
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Vincenzo Florio
Vincenzo Florio Jr. (18 March 1883 – 6 January 1959) was an Italian entrepreneur, heir of the rich Florio entrepreneurial dynasty, one of the wealthiest Italian families during the late 19th century.Flòrio
Treccani Enciclopedie on line (retrieved 10 April 2018)
An automobile enthusiast, he is best known as the founder of the .


Early life

He was the son of the Senator of the Kingdom of Italy, Ignazio Florio Sr. and baroness Giovanna D'Ondes Trigona. He was born in < ...
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Ignazio Florio Jr
Ignazio () is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: Arts *Ignazio Collino (1736–1793), Italian sculptor *Ignazio Fresu (born 1957), Italian sculptor * Ignazio Gardella (1905–1999), Italian architect and designer * Ignazio Hugford (1703–1777), Italian painter * Ignazio Marabitti (1719–1797), Sicilian sculptor * Ignazio Oliva (17th century), Italian painter * Carlo Ignazio Pozzi (1786–1842), Italian painter and architect *Ignazio Stern (1679–1748), Austrian painter Literature *Ignazio Buttitta (1899–1997), Sicilian dialectal poet * Ignazio Giorgi (1675–1737), Italian poet and translator *Ignazio Silone (1900–1978), Italian novelist and poet Music * Ignazio Albertini (1644–1685), Italian violinist and composer * Ignazio Cirri (1711–1787), Italian organist and composer * Ignazio Boschetto, Italian singer-songwriter & member of Il Volo *Ignazio Donati (1570–1638), Italian composer * Ignazio Fiorillo (1715–1787), Italian compo ...
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Senate Of The Republic (Italy)
The Senate of the Republic ( it, Senato della Repubblica), or simply the Senate ( it, Senato), is the upper house of the bicameral Italian Parliament (the other being the Chamber of Deputies). The two houses together form a perfect bicameral system, meaning they perform identical functions, but do so separately. Pursuant to the Articles 57, 58, and 59 of the Italian Constitution, the Senate has 200 elective members, of which 196 are elected from Italian constituencies, and 4 from Italian citizens living abroad. Furthermore, there is a small number (currently 6) of senators for life (''senatori a vita''), either appointed or ''ex officio''. It was established in its current form on 8 May 1948, but previously existed during the Kingdom of Italy as ''Senato del Regno'' ( Senate of the Kingdom), itself a continuation of the ''Senato Subalpino'' ( Subalpine Senate) of Sardinia established on 8 May 1848. Members of the Senate are styled ''Senator'' or ''The Honourable Senator'' (Itali ...
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