They were ready in the morning, and his sister went to church with white shoes on her feet, to the astonishment of all.
Salvatore was nine years old at the time.
His fate was sealed. He would be a shoemaker.
At the age of 11, Salvatore goes to Naples with only a few cents to his name, to learn more about shoemaking, in what had then been one of the capitals of luxury.
He would return shortly to his village where he would open a shoe shop with six workers, all older than him.