Word: carpena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Toward evening Babe, Donna & Duce motored inland to spend the birthday night at their rustic farm, the Villa Carpena. Lights were doused early. Next day the dutiful Duce bade his spouse a crisp farewell, sped back to his chosen busy bachelorhood in Rome. There, after buying a red carnation?just now his favorite boutonniére?the Dictator settled down to work, found an appalling piece of work...
Born to Edda Mussolini, 17, Vittorio Mussolini, 11, Bruno Mussolini, 8, a brother-Romano Mussolini. Rushed to the side of his wife, Donna Rachele Mussolini, at the Villa Torlonia at Carpena, Forli, Premier Benito Mussolini. Said he to reporters, wagging a warning forefinger: "Remember that journalistically my wife and family do not exist!" But it was "arranged" that the new baby received due publicity. Before he was many hours old, it had leaked out through indiscretions, "intentional or otherwise," that the baby's features are "exactly like those of his illustrious father," which was rightfully considered an impossible piece...
Born. To Premier Benito Mussolini a son, Romano Mussolini; at the Villa Carpena, Forli, Italy (see page...
...devoured 250 miles almost without slackening. From Rome it fled across Umbria and Tuscany into the hills of Forli. A quirk of the thumb and Mussolini cut the ignition. An easy swing of the wheel and he coasted silently up the drive of a country villa at Carpena. Dazed, the Premier's chauffeur looked about him, rubbed caked dust from smarting eyes...
...Bruno, Vittorio and Donna Rachele Mussolini enjoyed in Sabine rusticity the presence of Babbo Benito. Then, restless, he sped off with Donna Mussolini to Florence, visited their daughter Edda at the Institute di Poggio Imperiale, where she is a student. After luncheon Donna Rachele boarded a train for Carpena...