[1] Before Italy entered World War I in May 1915, it had made a pact with the Allies, the Treaty of London of 1915, in which it was promised all of the Austrian Littoral, but not the city of Fiume (known in Croatian as Rijeka).

With the Fiume affair at an end, Agostino Bertani surrendered to Italian forces and returned to Regia Marina control.

[4] At the end of September 1940, Enrico Cosenz was escorting a steamship of around 700 gross register tons in the Eastern Mediterranean when a submarine torpedoed the steamer.

After Enrico Cosenz counterattacked with depth charges, her crew reported seeing a presumably British submarine come to the surface, listng heavily, and sinking.

From 11 to 12 October 1940 Enrico Cosenz escorted the merchant ship Col di Lana from Tripoli, Libya, to Naples, Italy.

[5] On 9 April 1941 she got underway from Naples with the destroyer Dardo and the torpedo boats Clio and Generale Achille Papa to escort the merchant ships Andrea Gritti, Barbarigo, Burmania, Rialto, and Sebastiano Venier to Tripoli.

[9] At 05:30 on 21 November 1941, Enrico Cosenz departed Naples with the destroyer Nicoloso da Recco to escort the modern merchant ship Monginevro and the large tanker Iridio Mantovani to Libya.

Enrico Cosenz avoided capture, but on 25 September 1943 suffered damage in another collision, this time with the steamer Ulisse off Lastovo (known to the Italians as Lagosta) in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Dalmatia.