The Cane Corso (pronounced ) is a large dog breed of Southern Italian origins that is used for personal protection, tracking, law enforcement, and as a guard dog. They can also be very aggressive toward strangers and difficult to handle from a veterinary standpoint. Large similar catch dogs have been present in Italy for centuries observed mainly in artistic representations as those from Bartolomeo Pinelli. At the beginning of the 20th century this type of dog or landrace was not as well known in their country as before and was presented at a dog show for the first time in 1914 in Milan surprising the show's judge Fabio Caielli. Caielli and the dog's owner Mario Monti traveled around Italy looking for dogs of the same type to form a breed.
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