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...have just read with melancholy satisfaction your excellent obituary of that prince of good fellows-American mining engineer, Italian nobleman, soldier and ambassador-Prince Gelasio Caetani [TIME...
...items? At my suggestion, in June 1924 the University of Idaho...conferred upon Caetani (as we all knew him) the honorary degree of I.L.D. The invitation was extended through Stanly A. Easton, chairman of the Board of Regents of the University, and it was to him in 1904 that Caetani had come seeking employment mining lead ore (not gold) with a letter of introduction from John Hays Hammond. Mr. Easton was at that time vice president and general manager of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining Co. at Kellogg...
...commencement breakfast given by the mining students in Caetani's honor, the Royal Italian Ambassador, speaking to the students, said: "If any of you boys are working in the mines in the summertime, and you want somebody to help you push the car, you just send for Caetani-that is the way I got my start...
Meanwhile Prince Caetani's brothers were betraying their heritage, selling off the lands of their father, the late Duke Onorato, which comprised by far the largest estate in Italy, a virtual principality within the realm. Only bachelor Prince Gelasio, with no child to whom he could leave his share of the Caetani lands, kept all he could and was among the first Italian proprietors to cooperate with Il Duce in Fascism's vast project of land reclamation. As an engineer, the Prince, trained in the U. S. for such work, was gripped and fascinated by the political concept...
...reclamation work Prince Caetani was prevented by ill health from making more than an inspiring start. Other Fascists have carried on and "The Battle of the Grain" has been won. No longer active, though the King had made him a Senator for life, Prince Gelasio set himself to write the I Documenti dell' Achivio Caetani, a history of his house for the last 1,100 years. Said he just before his death: "It seems I shall not live to finish it, but at least I have brought the history of our house down to the 16th Century...