One of my favorite places in Florence is the Caffe Rivoire. On my last visit there, waiting for my luscious cappuccino to be made to order, I noticed this sign on the wall, claiming that the Negroni cocktail was invented here.

Below is the rough translation.

Now I had always thought, if and when I even thought about it, that the Negroni, which an old friend of mine called “truth serum,” was invented in Venice, but maybe that was the Bellini. Probably was.

So after reading the sign in the Rivoire, I looked up the history of the Negroni and found this: