AQUILINO MAESTRANI

AQUILINO MAESTRANI (1814-1880), whose father was one of those natives of Tessin who emigrated to Lombardy in the middle of the 18th century to learn "the chocolate trade", and who, himself, gained valuable experience in Milan, opened a chocolate factory in Lucerne in 1852.

Soon space became too limited for the constantly expanding factory, and Maestrani moved to St. Gallen.