Early nineteenth-century Napoleonic maps of the Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla showed it as a “pizzicagnolo”, meaning that it made and sold salumi, but...

Italy’s most famous confectioners. Verdi wrote that they ‘exquisitely candied all manner of fruits’, and King Umberto of Savoy chose them for his wedding with...

Every morning, before attending to State business, Carlo Alberto of Savoy would ask what was being said at Fiorio, for this was the meeting place of the...