Word: francesco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everything from apple-carts to art in Italy. The citizens of Urbino lately sent a delegation to Rome and last week II Duce decided to take down, from its hooks in the Uffizi at Florence, Raphael's portrait of a relative of Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, one Francesco Maria Della Revere, Duke of Urbino and patron of its painters. After a fitting period of exhibition in the Ministry of Public Education at Rome, the duke will be restored to his duchy, courtesy of Signor Raphael Sanzio...
...idea was born with hearing that Commander Francesco da Pinedo had successfully flown to South America. Another Important usage of the airplane was expected, i.e., in carrying cardinals to the papal election. Whenever a Pope dies the red-hatted cardinals must meet within a time limit of 10 days, which time in the past has been insufficient for American and Australian electors to reach Rome. No American could get to Rome, for instance, at the election following the death of Pope Benedict...
Tossing leagues of the South Atlantic moved steadily beneath him . . . 500 miles . . . 1000 miles . . . more water and more water . . . an equatorial downpour . . . then an island. Commander Francesco de Pinedo consulted his fuel gauges. Yes, there might be enough left. The maps said only 270 miles from this island, Fernando Noronha, to Port Natal on the easternmost shoulder of South America. There must be enough fuel left, for the glory of Fascismo. Commander de Pinedo circled the island, so that he might know it well, then flew ahead. He had been flying since an African moon flooded Porto Praya...
When he struts forth in a black shirt, his round eyes wide and straining to flame like II Duce's, Signor Francesco Marini, Director General of the Milan Schools, is a terrific sight at which small Marias and Beppos quake...
...wife, an attractive, alert and brilliant personality, told of a flying visit to Washington, where she discovered the reason for the State Department's action in muzzling the Count. Apparently it was that the Karolyis had been evicted from Italy by Premier Francesco Nitti for carrying on Bolshevik propaganda. The State Department neither corroborated the Countess nor contradicted her; it therefore was fairly assumed that her statement was exact. This made the U. S. Government's ground of complaint against the Count somewhat frivolous; for it is an open secret that the Karolyis were expelled from Italy because...