Word: aosta
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...tall young man stepped into the sunlight from the cavernous door of Fort Toselli above the unfinished cemetery. He was Prince Amadeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, Governor General of Italian East Africa, Viceroy of Ethiopia, and he had spent the night all alone in this echoing fort deep in the mountains of the Empire Rome had sent him to rule...
...Rome to offer the Crown (a wreath of golden clover leaves surmounted by a cross and an apple) to anybody Italy's wry little King Vittorio Emanuele should designate. The King had a couple of cousins who were in need of work. One was the Duke of Aosta, who had just finished losing the Crown of Ethiopia for his Cousin Vittorio (see p. 37). The other was Aosta's lean, towering younger brother, Aimone, Duke of Spoleto, who has done most of his campaigning in boudoirs and is now married to Irene, Princess of Greece. Spoleto...
...simultaneous upsies and dazies of Italian Imperial fortunes were last week exemplified by two brothers. Just after the Duke of Spoleto was named King of Croatia with pomp and jubilation, his elder brother the Duke of Aosta yielded up the trappings of his authority as Viceroy of Ethiopia...
Month ago, when the Nazis were sprinting across Libya toward Egypt and the British needed every man they could muster from East Africa, Lieut. General Alan Gordan Cunningham offered the Duke of Aosta peace terms. The Duke was in such a hopeless military position that he must have eyed the terms wistfully, even though accepting them would have meant giving up his much-loved gaudy uniforms; but he had strict orders not to give in-having lost Ethiopia, he might as well detain as many British as possible as long as possible...
...making Amba Alagi uncomfortable for other reasons besides altitude. He decided that he had detained the British long enough, asked for peace terms. The British gladly delivered. Neither Cairo nor London divulged the terms in detail, but one of them was said to be certain: the Duke of Aosta would have to surrender not only his fancy uniforms but also his own fancy person. For the British the capitulation was timely, because they still needed every man they could muster...