Florio family
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For the surname, see Florio (surname).
The Florio family is a prominent entrepreneurial Italian family who started many lucrative activities in Sicily involving the export of Sicilian products (such as Marsala wine) in the nineteenth century, in some ways redeeming Sicily from feudal immobility.[1] The family extended its interests to shipping, shipbuilding, fisheries, mining, metallurgy and ceramics.[2]