Paolo Atti e Figli

About this audio guide

This guide to Paolo Atti e Figli in Bologna follows the farmer's son who arrived in the city at twenty-eight with only a baker's apprenticeship behind him, and by 1868 had talked his way into running a rented bakery neighbors called the Piedmontese oven. It traces his rise to buying out a business partner, taking over this building in 1903, and carving his initials above the door. Look up at the two sheaves of wheat flanking the monogram before you step inside.