Word: galeazzo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dead men tell no tales," Benito Mussolini once reminded Count Galeazzo Ciano, little realizing that the son-in-law he ordered shot in January 1944 would prove a talkative exception. As Italy's Foreign Minister from 1936 to 1943, Ciano jotted day-to-day entries in a red diary. The first volume, covering 1939-43, appeared in 1945. The latest covers 1937-38, the years of the German annexation of Austria, the forging of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, and Munich. Like the first, it packs no great historical surprises, but sketches in a lively picture of intrigue...
Married. Raimonda Ciano, 18, only daughter of Edda Mussolini Ciano and the late Count Galeazzo Ciano, granddaughter of 11 Duce; and Alessandro Giunta, 23, great-great-great-grandson of Napoleon's brother, Lucien Bonaparte; in Rome...
...Capri, Raimonda Ciano, 18-year-old daughter of the late Count Galeazzo Ciano, and granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, announced her engagement to Sandro Guinta, 23, a blood descendant of Napoleon...
...Stockings. Laura Diaz is the daughter of rich Augusto Diaz, lawyer for the famous Ciano family of Leghorn. When Mussolini ousted Count Galeazzo Ciano from his cabinet in 1943, both the Ciano and Diaz families suffered. Soon after, Laura Diaz came into contact with the Communist underground, and when the Germans took over Mussolini's crumbling state she was leader of a Communist cell in Leghorn. Her public career began at a Communist convention in Milan in 1948 when she walked on to the stage wearing red stockings, red jersey, a red ribbon in her hair, presented Communist Boss...