Originally from Villar Pellice, the Talmone’s name is connected to the Turin confectionery tradition, as they introduced a range of products, including the famous "Chocolate of the Pyramids".
The factory was in Via Balbis 19 in Turin, while one of the most famous shops was in the central Via Lagrange.

The family tomb was  along the inner wall of the Evangelical plot in the Turin cemetery. Alberto Talmone purchased it in 1883 and had a temple-shaped burial place built with columns surmounted by Corinthian capitals and  the inscription "Talmone Family" in the frieze and a bas-relief with a winged hourglass in the tympanum or gable.

Alberto's parents, that is Michele, founder of the factory, and Susanne Gonin, who in her youth had been a governess and had studied at the high school for women (the Pensionnat) in Torre Pellice were buried there as was his brother Maurizio. The young man had been tragically killed in Somalia by  a spear in 1893. His death as was told by the chronicles of the time: the young lieutenant was part of the Italian delegation landed in Merka from the ship Staffetta  to meet the leaders of a hostile tribe, at the end of the meeting, boarded a boat that should have brought him back on the ship, he was stabbed by one of locals who was accompanying him.

The grave slab is decorated with a laurel wreath and the cartouche, both in bronze, reads Maurizio Talmone / Navy Lieutenant / April the 9th, 1895. The body arrived in Turin two years after his death, as the ship’s captain had decided to bury him in Italy.

Tommaso di Savoia, Duke of Genoa also attended his funeral.