Luigi Porro Lambertenghi

Italian entrepreneur and politician (1780-1860)

Luigi Porro Lambertenghi is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.

The record lists Luigi Porro Lambertenghi as Italian entrepreneur and politician (1780-1860).

Luigi Porro Lambertenghi was born at Como in 1780.

This was the age of chartered companies and long-distance trade, when a single voyage could make or ruin a house.

He worked as entrepreneur and politician.

What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.

Recognition followed: Order of the Iron Crown (Kingdom of Italy).

Luigi Porro Lambertenghi died in 1860, aged 80. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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