His army failed to fulfill expectations, and he stood out, indeed, as the most wait-and-see of the Italian army commanders. At the end of June 1915, he requested the exemption of the subordinate general Pietro Marini, whose fault was having imprudently occupied the saddle of the Sasso di Stria and Cadorna, who did not share the esteem of which his subordinate was almost unanimously accredited, accepted the request. However, on September 25, of the same year Cadorna also exonerated him, replacing him with General Mario Nicolis di Robilant.
