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The first testimony of production and commercialisation in Italy is dated in the year 1677, when a request for a liquorice extract coming from Corigliano Calabro was advanced by a Neapolitan merchant. A few years later, the Duke of Corigliano ordered the construction of a liquorice factory (“Concio”) in the city and, hence, the company Solazzi also became famous worldwide.
In 1885, the Consul of the United States of America to Malaga refers, for example, as an opinion to his informers that the root of Anatolia is “decisively bitter”, the one from Greece is “bitter”, the one from Sicily is “sweet, but not as sweet as the Spanish one” and the Italian one (from Calabria) is the “richest and sweetest of them all”. |
