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Died. Italy's No. 1 Socialist duke, Leone Caetani, 66, Prince of Teano, 15th Duke of Sermoneta, elder brother of Italy's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Don Gelasio Caetani, first cousin of Britain's present Ambassador to the U. S., Sir Ronald Lindsay, scion of an age-old Roman family which sired Popes Gelasius II and Boniface VIII and author of the monumental history of Mohammedanism, Annalli Dell' Islam; in Vancouver, Canada. Since much of the historic Caetani lands lay in the Pontine Marshes, the Socialist duke conceived enlightened plans for draining them...
This produced in Rome profound explosions of Fascist wrath. At the Dictator's press bureau, run by his affable son-in-law Count Gelasio Ciano, the official spokesman said furiously of Abyssinia's Emperor "He was 'being smart!' Our Minister to Abyssinia has informed the Abyssinian Government that their unilateral effort will not stand...
...have just read with melancholy satisfaction your excellent obituary of that prince of good fellows-American mining engineer, Italian nobleman, soldier and ambassador-Prince Gelasio Caetani [TIME...
Meanwhile Prince Caetani's brothers were betraying their heritage, selling off the lands of their father, the late Duke Onorato, which comprised by far the largest estate in Italy, a virtual principality within the realm. Only bachelor Prince Gelasio, with no child to whom he could leave his share of the Caetani lands, kept all he could and was among the first Italian proprietors to cooperate with Il Duce in Fascism's vast project of land reclamation. As an engineer, the Prince, trained in the U. S. for such work, was gripped and fascinated by the political concept...
...reclamation work Prince Caetani was prevented by ill health from making more than an inspiring start. Other Fascists have carried on and "The Battle of the Grain" has been won. No longer active, though the King had made him a Senator for life, Prince Gelasio set himself to write the I Documenti dell' Achivio Caetani, a history of his house for the last 1,100 years. Said he just before his death: "It seems I shall not live to finish it, but at least I have brought the history of our house down to the 16th Century...