Word: ciano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view from the villa was superb. But Countess Edda Ciano, nee Mussolini, was not interested. "What I want most of all is that my case be settled one way or the other," she said. "There is nothing more unbearable than this waiting...
Cavaliers & Conquests. Time was, before the dreadful war, when Edda Ciano had been anything but an ordinary woman. Then she was numbered among a rare group of sirens, Italian and German, who wooed Roman society for Hitler and the Axis...
...flaxen-haired, Swedish-born Princess Ann Mari Bismarck and her complacent husband, Prince Otto, had enthralled Rome with their lavish entertainments. Otto had an unlimited allowance from the German Embassy and instructions to let the Princess go her calculated way. Ann Mari's grande affaire with Ciano's Chief of Cabinet, ardent Filippo Anfuso, had more than repaid Berlin...
Home to Jail. In a very different mood was another prominent D.P., haggard Countess Edda Ciano, daughter of the late Benito Mussolini, widow of the Jate Count Galeazzo Ciano. From her Swiss refuge (a nerve hospital), she had watched the collapse of Fascism. Now she had to go home. In a closed car the Countess was driven by night across the Italian frontier, flown to Rome, then shipped to the Lipari Islands, once one of her father's favorite penitentiaries. Only thus could the authorities be sure they could save Edda from her father's fate...
...other German documents were under way. In cafés and even in prison compounds, discredited diplomats, jobless generals and plain sad sacks talked copyright laws and literary prices. It was still an eighth wonder of the post V-E world that the Chicago Daily News had paid Edda Ciano $75,000 for her late husband's dreary diary...