Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona

Italian industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain climber and racing driver (1871-1927)

In the history of enterprise, Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona as Italian industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain climber and racing driver (1871-1927).

Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona was born at Migliarino Pisano in 1871. His recorded nationality is Italy.

Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.

He worked as explorer, politician and racing driver.

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.

Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona died in 1927, aged 56. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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