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Edilio Raggio: at a glance
Edilio Raggio (Genoa, 15 July 1840 – Novi Ligure, 22 October 1906) was an Italian entrepreneur and politician, deputy of the Kingdom of Italy.
Biography
Graduated in law, he never exercised forensic activity, but instead became interested in business and entrepreneurship and made his fortune thanks to a profitable...Explore this chapter
After graduating in law, he never exercised forensic activity, but instead became interested in trade and entrepreneurship and made his fortune thanks to a profitable contract of supply of coal to the railroads later extended to the Navy.
He founded the Italian Industrial Carbonifera plant in the nineties, which will then be the basis of his fortune. In 1874 he was nominated for the XII Legislature for the College of Novi Ligure and once elected he became a member of the Budget Council and various committees as well as Rapporteur of the Regia Marina Report and served as deputy for more than a quarter of a century until 1900.
In 1879 he started the activity of shipowner and founded the steel mill Raggio & Ratto in the then autonomous municipality of Sestri Ponente.[1]. The ironworks was equipped with the first "sheet metal train" in Italy and the first Martin-Siemens oven in Liguria[2]
In 1882, together with his brothers Carlo and Armando founded the "Italian Society of Maritime Transport Raggio & Co."[3] to connect Italy to South America, both regarding goods and passengers.
Right at that time he bought it in Cornigliano Ligure Sant'Andrea rock where between 1881 and 1885 he would have built the splendid Castello Raggio.
Between 1898 and 1899, some railway accidents in Liguria which were traced back to the quality of coal he provided caused a national scandal that temporarily offended his public image.
A route to Edilio Raggio is named Novi Ligure, the hospital and a street in the center of Genoa. A Pozzolo Formigaro near Novi Ligure is titled the former kindergarten, opened in 1860 and officially inaugurated in 1896 and then closed in 1986[4].
Notes
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- ^ Biography of Edilio, Armando and Carlo Raggio Archived on 13 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine., from Vilfredo Archive Fund Pareto della Banca Popolare di Sondrio
- ^ Giorgio Doria, Investments and economic development in Genoa on the eve of World War I, Milan, Giuffré, 1969, vol. I, page. 325
- ^ Italian Society of Maritime Transport Raggio & Co., up theshipslist.com (archived fromoriginal url on 17 November 2008).
- ^ The Children's Asylum "EVERY READ", up wellloformigaro.gov.it. Retrieved 30 August 2017 (archived fromoriginal url on 30 August 2017).
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