After 14 months in court, the final decision was in favor of the Giro organisation, thus making Calzolari the definitive winner.

Favorites for the race were Lucien Petit-Breton from France, and Ganna, Galetti, Girardengo, Giuseppe Santhià and Azzini from Italy.

[2] Race director Cougnet decided to allow amateurs due to the low number of cyclists and teams that had registered in the weeks prior to the start.

There were eight teams that competed in the race: Alcyon, Atala, Bianchi, Ganna, Gerbi, Globo, Maino, and Stucchi.

[5] Other notable Italian riders that started the race included Costante Girardengo, Angelo Gremo, Alfonso Calzolari, and Giovanni Gerbi.

[4] Angelo Gremo won the stage ahead of Carlo Durando and Alfonso Calzolari who finished over thirteen minutes in arrears.

[6] The race compared to the previous year's edition featured fewer stages and a longer total distance.

[7] Race director Armando Cougnet decided to abandon the points system for calculating the general classification in favor of a purely time based approached where the leader was the rider with the lowest total time raced for all stages – a decision the Tour de France director Henri Desgrange did in 1913.

The two parties went to court, and in February the Giro organisation won, and again after an appeal in July 1915, making Calzolari the definitive winner.