Word: gelasio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy today Benito Mussolini is "The Prince" (i. e. the State) as imagined by Niccoló Machiavelli. Different was Prince Don Gelasio Caetani who died last week. He closely fitted the ideal of Erasmus: "The Prince exists for the sake of the State...
Youngest but one of five brothers, Don Gelasio fled the incredibly gloomy and sordid palace of the stingy Caetani in Rome to graduate from Columbia University's School of Mines in 1903 as "Mr. Gelasio Caetani." He then became a "wop" digging gold in Idaho for John Hays Hammond. "Knowledge of my origin," said Prince Caetani afterward, "would have spoiled my camaraderie with my fellow miners...