Word: amedeo
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...Michelangelo to the present day, with the exception of a colorful but shallow digression at Venice, good Italian painting has been practically nonexistent. But in 1884, a sickly boy was born in the Ghetto at Leghorn, Tuscany, to Flaminio Modigliani, son of a Roman usurer. The boy was named Amedeo which means "love of God." Under the guidance of his uncle Isaac described by one of his family as "a man of vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious, passionate, grave. When he was 14 he had typhoid fever and in his delirium...
Prime Minister Mussolini of Italy last week chewed on a bitter-sweet contract and said a sour thanks. The contract bore the signatures of his Ambassador to the U. S. Giacomo De Martino, and Deputy Amedeo Perna, Italian dentist-politician, and the level script of George Eastman, Kodak & film tycoon. It sweetly gave $1,000,000 to the Italian Government to build and equip a dental clinic in Rome. At the same time it bitterly implied the rottenness and crookedness of Italian children's teeth. And it hobbled the champing Mussolini to certain stout stipulations...
Died. Princess Laetitia Napoleon Bonaparte, 59, aunt of King Vittorio Emanuele ILL; widow of Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, onetime (1870-73) King of Spain; daughter of Prince ("Plon Plon") Napoleon; granddaughter of Jerome Bonaparte (brother of Napoleon I and King of Westphalia, who married Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore) ; hence cousin of Charles Joseph Bonaparte, onetime (1905-06) Secretary of the Navy and (1906-09) U. S. Attorney General; at Turin, Italy...
...Luigi Amedeo, "Prince of Saxony, and Duke of Abruzzi, naval officer, and navigator, bold explorer of Arctic seas, African tropics and Alaskan peaks, illustrating in this generation the adventurous, stout-hearted quality of his ancient family and the still more ancient Italian race...