Word: fucino
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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Hounds to Jeeps. Giovanni passed most of his beautiful things on to his younger son Alessandro, who justified his father's confidence. His most notable undertaking was the conversion into farmland of Lake Fucino-a problem which had been, on the agenda since the reign of the Emperor Claudius I (B.C. 10-A.D. 54). "Either I will dry up Fucino," said Alessandro, "or it will dry me up." After eleven years, Alessandro won; the family still rents out most of Fucino's 35,000 acres to tenants at $40 an acre a year...
Present master of this domain is the first Alessandro's great-grandson, 23-year-old Don Alessandro Carlo Paolo Giulio Augusto Francesco Romano Torlonia, Prince Torlonia, Prince of Fucino, Prince of Canino and Musignamo, Duke of Ceri, Marquess of Romavecchia. To prevent Torlonia tenants from acquiring any permanent rights to their land, the family has forbidden them to plant trees or build huts. The Torlonias' armed guard no longer has to rely on the hounds; it rides in jeeps, patrolling day & night, along a 33-mile road surrounding Fucino...
Pierino was arrested and the prince taken to a hospital, where he is recovering. But the great lord faced other difficulties. The shooting brought forth anti-Torlonia editorials in the Marxist press. This week a group of Christian Democratic deputies proposed that the Fucino acres be expropriated by the government and turned over to the peasants who work them...
Meanwhile, the prince still came first, and after him the guard, and after the guard the hounds, and after the hounds the jeeps which circle Fucino day & night...
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