Career
A determining fact in marking the force of his activities was his genial intuition that his workers should participate in the benefits of their activities. Often found in society news for his frequent romantic encounters, the popular tradition recorded legendary characteristics to his amatory capacities. As a politician, he maintained a great popularity and was venerated by the majority of the population of the city of Naples, to the point that in the municipal elections of 1952 and 1956 he received almost 300,000 votes, higher than any number of votes received by any candidate in local elections up to that point.
Also during this period he was named president of the Naples football club SSC Napoli, where he succeeded Giorgio Ascarelli.
After the war, after an initial participation in the Common Manitoba"s Front, he became active in the monarchist movement of Alfredo Covelli and financially supported the birth of the Monarchist National Party (PNM), and was for a long time the mayor of Naples, appreciated and questioned for his management of the public funds. A square in the coastal town of Sorrento is named in his honour.