Word: ciano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." In the first issue of the Italian magazine Insieme (Together), which the publishers had promised would stress "the exaltation of family life," Co-Editor Countess Edda Ciano wrote unashamedly that she had been born out of wedlock to Benito Mus solini and Rachele Guidi, who was later his wife. "For many years, unaware of being a bastard, I was happy," she wrote...
...Italian magazine called Insième (Together) announced in Rome that Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano, whose husband was shot by a firing squad in 1944 and whose father was killed by a mob in 1945, would be editor of its women's section. The editors said the magazine would stress "the exaltation of family life...
...Edda Ciano, daughter of Mussolini and ranking prewar playgirl of Fascist Italy, was anticipating a tidy windfall: the U.S. Government was expected to release to her some $40,000 in royalties on her late husband's Ciano Diaries, now that the Italian government had decided it was all right for her to accept...
...lived at I Tatti ever since. When World War II broke out, friends urged him to leave. He refused: "Rather than give up these cypresses and olive trees and this light, I would lay down my life." Ambassador William Phillips then got a promise from Count Ciano that "Berenson would never be disturbed." Finally, however, the onrush of the Nazis forced him out. After the war, two young partisans, sent by the Committee of National Liberation, found him in hiding and escorted him back to his cypresses and olive trees, his several servants, and the remote, unruffled life...
...First awarded in 1815, under the patronage of St. Isabela, for loyalty in defense of Spanish possessions, now a general order of merit. Italy's Galeazzo Ciano also...