Enrico Caruso singing fees into a range of investments. Biographer Michael Scott writes that by the end of the war in 1918, Caruso's annual income tax bill amounted to $154,000. Prior to World War I, Caruso had been romantically linked to an Italian soprano, Ada Giachetti, who was a few years older than he was. Though already married, Giachetti bore Caruso four sons during their liaison, which lasted from 1897 to 1908. Two survived infancy: Rodolfo Caruso (1898-1951) and singer/actor Enrico Caruso, Jr. (1904-1987). Ada had left her husband, manufacturer Gino Botti, and an existing son to cohabit with the tenor. Information
Girolamo Caruso 1923. On 12 November 1925, in the lecture room of Agronomy of "Istituto superiore agrario of Pisa", they placed a marble bust of Girolamo Caruso, carved by Giuseppe Michelotti, similar to those of Cosimo Ridolfi and Pietro Cuppari, wanted by Caruso himself. Alcamo, his native town, has remembered him by entitling him a street and the homonymous Technical Institute (now ITET). In 1873, in one of his introductory reports, Caruso put in evidence the social, economic, and productive implications of the "mezzadria" (called metayage in English): first of all it had to exist, from the economic point of view, for