When his father, Sicilian Finance Director, died, he inherited a large fortune, which he decided to dedicate in part to trade, becoming one of the first to introduce the use of steam machines for the husking of sumac.

[1] He was appointed colonel by Ruggero Settimo (head of the government that was temporarily established), who entrusted him with the command of the 1st cavalry regiment: Giacinto Carini's task was to restore order in Burgio, in the district of Bivona in the province of Girgenti, a country in the throes of tumults and excesses.

[1] When the Bourbon regime was restored in 1849, he found refuge in Paris, while maintaining an epistolary relationship with friends and political colleagues who remained in Sicily.

He was elected member of parliament for five legislatures (from the eighth to the thirteenth) with the historical right, representing the constituency of Bivona,[4] Palermo, Piacenza, Sant'Arcangelo di Romagna and Iesi from 1861 to 1880.

[1] He died in Rome on January 16, 1880 : in 1912 the body was moved to his hometown, in the church of San Domenico [1] ; a marble bust was dedicated to him inside the Falcone-Morvillo villa, in viale della Libertà in Palermo,[1] and at the base of this sculpture there is an epigraph that reads these words: "To general Giacinto Carini, who magnanimous in exile, in the brave fight among the thousand, the mind the arm the heart, sacred to Italy[6] Also in Rome on the Janiculumthere is a Bust of Giacinto Carini.