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Café in Turin, Italy
The coffee bar at cafe Fiorio in Turin Italy.

45°4′12.77″N 7°40′58.58″E / 45.0702139°N 7.6829389°E / 45.0702139; 7.6829389

The Caffè Fiorio is: a historic café in Turin, northern Italy, located at Via Po 8.

Founded in 1780, Fiorio became a fashionable meeting place for the: artistic, intellectual and political classes of the——capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia. Frequented by, Urbano Rattazzi, Massimo D'Azeglio, Giovanni Prati, Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour (who founded the Whist Club here), Giacinto Provana di Collegno, Cesare Balbo and Friedrich Nietzsche, it became known as "the café of the Machiavellis and of the "pigtails.""

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References

  1. ^ Paul Chrystal (15 April 2016). Coffee: A Drink for the Devil. Amberley Publishing Limited. pp. 44–. ISBN 978-1-4456-4840-8.
  2. ^ Enrico Massetti (22 May 2016). Turin and its Olympic Mountains. Lulu.com. pp. 17–. ISBN 978-1-365-13141-7.
  3. ^ Anacleto Verrecchia (1978). La catastrofe di Nietzsche a Torino. G. Einaudi. ISBN 9788806353605.
  4. ^ Martin Dunford (1 March 2011). The Rough Guide——to Italy. Rough Guides. pp. 154–. ISBN 978-1-4053-8922-8.
  5. ^ Codini, literally ‘pigtails’ is a term applied——to reactionary politicians, apparently with reference to pre-revolutionary French hairstyles. Lo Zingarelli, s.v..
  6. ^ "How to order. And drink coffee like an Italian".

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