[1] Parlanti had come to London in about 1890, after working in the lost-wax (cire perdue) method of casting at the Fonderia Nelli, Rome's leading foundry,[2][3] and ran the London business until August 1905 when its management was taken over by his brother Ercole James Palanti (c.1871-1955).
[3][4] After Alessandro returned to Rome with his wife and children, the foundry was managed solely by Ercole, who had worked alongside his older brother since about 1897.
During the early 1920s, his business prospered from commissions for war memorials and became a limited company in 1926.
Parlanti later established another casting business in Winders Road, Battersea.
[5][6] Castings undertaken at Parsons Green included Sir George Frampton's Peter Pan statue,[2] George Frederic Watts' Physical Energy,[7] Albert Toft's Boer War memorial (1906) in Birmingham's Cannon Hill Park[8] and the Glenelg war memorial (sculpture by Louis Deuchars; unveiled 1920).