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 most influential conservatives,
like Prati, Collegno, Balbo, Lisio and Santarosa, who viewed
liberty as a slow civic conquest which the masses needed to be
trained for in order not to destroy it. It was a favourite haunt of
Cavour, Rattazzi, and D’Azeglio, and ‘home’ to the poor
epigrammatist Baratta. From 1930, anti-Fascists would meet
in the ‘Il Vagone’ room. An eighteenth/nineteenth-century
atmosphere with a 1920 counter in yellow marble and a Libertystyle
entrance porch at the side. It holds the secrets of Turin’s
most famous ice creams, which were adored by Nietzsche.

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