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With a section of London's Press busily encouraging Italians to rise against Benito Mussolini and insisting that Italy's Royal Family is opposed to the Ethiopian campaign (TIME, Sept. 30), King Vittorio Emanuele's cousin the Duke of Bergamo sailed this week for war service and the latter's brother the Duke of Pistoia volunteered. Meanwhile the Englishman to whom Ethiopia's Emperor granted a vast concession intended for "Standard Oil'' (TIME, Sept. 9 et seq.) was lashed last week in a most unusual dispatch from London by the New York Times...
Whether Leonardo had loved Isabella, he could not say. But he felt he could say that Leonardo, usually rated an isolated, loveless psychotic whose appearance of amiable charm was false, had loved Sforza's mistress, Cecilia Gallerani, Countess Bergamo. Leonardo might also have loved Isabella...
...Sacred Winding Sheet (also called The Holy Shroud) was borne triumphantly in a silver chest to The Chapel of the Winding Sheet in Turin cathedral. Escorting it walked Crown Prince Umberto, Crown Princess Marie Jose, Princess Mafalda, Yolanda and Bona, the Dukes of Apulia, Genoa, Spoleto, Pistoia Ancona, Bergamo and the Count of Turin...
First to quick step after receiving the circular letter was the Podesta of Bergamo. Under his auspices met, next day, a joint conclave of the local Employers' Association and the Workingmen's Syndicates-both arch-Fascist organizations. Within 30 minutes they had adopted a resolution in part as follows...
...permit the meeting to take place. The Opposition became livid, published a manifesto in which Benito's act was described as "a new demonstration of the policy of repressing every liberty pursued by the present Government." While rain and hailstones swept over Milan, Piacenza, Mantua, Novara and Brescia - Bergamo and Verona experienced, for the first time in memory, a Summer snowstorm. The Italian Tyrol was so cold that people were forced to wear furs. Throughout northern Italy the rivers and lakes overflowed, causing much damage to crops. The Italian ex-Servicemen's Association ended its annual Congress...