Bird’s-eye view of Via XX Settembre, Parma, 1938
Notification to the Prefecture of the opening of the business in Via Crispi, Parma, 1935
“When I think of the first job I did, it makes me laugh. I’d spend entire days cutting the necks of the phials that came from the glass blower’s, because they were too long to be used like that.”
Carlo Serioli, former Chiesi employee
Demonstration image of the medicine Foscavit, 1950s
Demonstration image of the medicine Terebin, 1950s
“Soncini would cycle across the Emilia region, then onto Mantua, then as far as Cremona. He’d go to all the doctor’s practices to present the products. Only after five or six months of work did he manage to buy himself a Vespa.”
Carlo Serioli, former Chiesi employee
Giacomo Chiesi in his laboratory, 1950s
“That day, a Chiesi employee came around to my place. ‘Doctor Giacomo,’ he said, ‘is starting up again at the Fontanini and he would like you to join him.’ I accepted straight away.
I worked in the storage room. With me there was Anita, who lived there, and three other girls, Angiolina, Vanda, and Nina.”
Carlo Serioli, former Chiesi employee
“Thanks to that crate of opium and Laudano, Chiesi was back in business. Purchasing it had been a pure stroke of luck, as was keeping it safe until the end of the war. There were some forty kilos of opium and two demijohns of Laudano there. With those products, used for intestinal diseases, we saved the company.”
Carlo Serioli, former Chiesi employee
