J.Davilla Italian Aviation in the First World War. Vol.2: Aircraft A-H (A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes 74)

Bossi Aircraft

  Bossi America - In the June 1914 Bossi built a transatlantic flying boat called Bossi America. The three-seat flying boat bomber had a central fuselage, with biplane wings, and two engines. It was based on the Curtiss America Bossi had planned to produce under license in Italy.
  The construction of the Bossi America took place at the Zari firm. The completed prototype, had two 150-hp Isottas Fraschini V.4s which replaced the 90-hp engines used on the Curtiss machine. The tests were extremely difficult, revealing various problems with the design. The Regia Marina had planned to buy 18 machines, but cancelled their order in 1915 after the tests dragged on.
  Enea Bossi, moved to the United States during the First World War. In 1927 he had become president of the American Aeronautical Corporation in New York an he acquired the license to build SIAI (Savoia Marchetti) seaplanes.