 The two surviving vessels remained in the Italian fleet until 1920, when they too were broken up for scrap.The first three members of the "Goito" class was designed by Engineering General Inspector Benedetto Brin, while was designed by Engineering Director Giacinto Pullino.Brin had previously designed several classes of very large ironclad battleships, including the and es, but by the 1880s, he had begun to embrace the ideas of the "Jeune École", which emphasized small, fast, torpedo-armed vessels that could damage or destroy the much larger battleships at a fraction of the cost.