for professional preparation and training of young people for life on the sea. Following the profound spiritual crisis due to the death of his son, he moved away from the Freemasonry of Ferrara, which he had frequented for a long time, and approached the Jesuit order.

In 1953, after the death of the president of SADE Achille Gaggia, a close and faithful collaborator of Volpi and of the "Venetian group", Cini assumed the presidency of the company, which was nationalized