Amilcare Pizzi

Italian entrepreneur and association football player (1891-1974)

In the history of enterprise, Amilcare Pizzi is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Amilcare Pizzi as Italian entrepreneur and association football player (1891-1974).

Amilcare Pizzi was born at Milan in 1891. His recorded nationality is Italy.

Around the turn of the twentieth century the corporation became the dominant economic form, along with the antitrust politics that followed it.

He worked as entrepreneur and association football player.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

That the business was built from Italy shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Amilcare Pizzi died in 1974, aged 83. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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