По легенде вручён в 1889 году скульптору Бенедетто Чивилетти
Benedetto Civiletti (Palermo 1845-1899) was one of the great Sicilian sculptors of the late Nineteenth Century working in a realistic style, and a contemporary of the other well known sculptors Domenico Trentacoste and Ettore Ximenes.
Civiletti came from an artistic family. Two younger brothers, Pasquale and Salvatore worked in New York as sculptors also, and sculpted a white marble monument (25 feet) of Giuseppe Verdi in 1906 which still stands at West 73rd Street and Broadway. The town of Palermo (and other Sicilian towns as well) have a number of important sculptures by Benedetto Civiletti, the monument to King Vittorio Emanuele II and the horses and riders on the top of the magnificent Theater Politeama designed by the Architect Giuseppe Almeyda in 1867 and completed in 1891.
Palermo was the fourth largest city in Italy with over 250,000 inhabitants at the time, it had a stimulating intellectual life and no less than two theaters, which were built at the same time at opposite ends in the town center. The Theater Politeama was renamed in 1882 after Garibaldi, upon his death and it is the visual and topographic reference for the city of Palermo.
за работу над бюстом Мозафереддин-шаха.