The grenadiers under his orders distinguished themselves at "Altitude 188",[2] in front of Gorizia, and then in the defense of Monte Cengio,[2] during the very hard[e] and bloody[f] Battle of Asiago[1][2] on June 3, 1916.

He took part in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto at the head of the XII Army Corps[g][3][2] advancing on the Altopiano dei Sette Comuni, freed Pergine Valsugana, avoiding atrocities committed in other places during the Austro-Hungarian retreat.

In 1919 he was designated by the Italian government to command a force of 85,000 men who would have had to intervene in Georgia in order to maintain the independence of the new Caucasian countries from the aims of the nascent Soviet Union but this expedition was not carried out.

[6] Commissioned by a committee chaired by Benito Mussolini, Armando Diaz, Luigi Cadorna and other civil and military personalities, his native town of Rionero in Vulture erected a bronze statue dedicated to him.

[h][7] In June 1968, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Battle of the Piave River, the municipality of Pergine Valsugana conferred honorary citizenship on him and dedicated the main street to him;[8] in Giavera del Montello a monument was erected in his honor by the sculptor Memo Botter.