Enrico Alberto d'Albertis

The crossing that would have made him famous in the world of navigators organized it in 1891, the year before the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Cristoforo Colombo; d'Albertis had a specially built yacht - the Corsaro - and with it retraced Columbus's course.

Returning to his city, d'Albertis then began to frequent the group of explorers and naturalists who had gathered around the Marquis Giacomo Doria; for his part he tried to make himself useful to the research by performing analyzes of the seas, fish and plants he came across during his travels.

He was dressed in this way, of a leather jacket of seal and with the cap of wool, a day of snow in which, struck down by wind and frozen by cold, he hosted me at Monte Galletto [the town where the castle still stands].

Large, thin, the skin tanned by long cruises, the bushy and bristly beard, the hair abandoned in a nice nonchalance, the eyebrows are thick and their two eyes are very bright.

Also in this case the anonymous chronicler of the Caffaro 'is of help', who recalls that to arouse his curiosity, during a visit to the Castle of Albertis, were in particular a dried siren ' 'and a' 'gong' '("species of" tan-tan ", which when put into practice could, even to say, compete with the bell of the [guard] tower, even after the much-feared recasting »).

«The art beautiful, modern and dazzling - the chronicler adds - is represented [in sculpture] by " [Cristoforo] Colombo Giovinetto "(see box above) by Giulio Monterverde and archeology from the armor of Fabrizio del Carretto of Ithodio magistro .

The coat of arms of the Albertis is in field blue with chains of silver moving from the corners of the shield, joined in the middle by ring; in the fourth, below, a star of gold with five points; the enterprise bears a leopard nascent.