Emilio Ghisoni (1937 – 28 April 2008) was an Italian inventor and firearm designer, best known for his innovative work with revolvers.
Ghisoni was born in Pavia, northern Italy in 1937, and attended university to follow a course in classical studies.
His father founded a company, Macchine Termo-Balistiche (Mateba), that manufactured pasta kneading machinery and other food processing equipments.
The death of his father, who ran the company, caused Ghisoni to leave school in 1956 to learn the business.
[1] In the 1970s he designed his first prototype: a revolver with a lower barrel and cylinder in front of the trigger guard.