Word: giovannas
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Late one night in June 1950, Giovanna Ricci, 35, wife of a Venice shopkeeper, gave birth to a fine, healthy boy. She had already borne two children without difficulty, and at first all seemed well. Then the attending midwife noticed symptoms of post-partum hemorrhage. Alarmed, she urged the Ricci family to call in Dr. Giovanni Lavezzi, who had examined Giovanna ten days before...
...seaside villa in Santa Marinella, Italy, some 20 photographers arrived to record the latest production of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini: the debut of their 21-day-old twin daughters, christened Isotta Ingrid Frieda Giuliana and Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna...
...Honoris Causa. Then in 1934 the Bulgarian Army abolished Parliament and established Boris as the somewhat bewildered figurehead of a military dictatorship. Boris buckled down to serious work and within a year made it just plain dictatorship, with the Army very much in the background. He had married Princess Giovanna, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III, and has carefully borne in mind the example of his powerless father...
Domenico Ghirlandajo's portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, to still another anonymous collector for $500,000. One of twelve Ghirlandajos in the U. S.. this brilliant picture of the daughter of the great Florentine banking family was considered one of the most important in the entire Morgan collection. It was bought by the elder Morgan in 1907 for one-half of last week's price...
...mishap had come at Roosevelt Dam; a bystander's careless match that burned up his ship. Then he came down at sea, had to be towed for seven days into Fayal. Now came worse. Some say it was the House of Savoy, angered because he dared court Princess Giovanna (today Queen of Bulgaria). Some say it was Italo Balbo, jealous of de Pinedo's acclaim. Some say it was because de Pinedo "forgot" about a half-million-lire fund raised for him by Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly, drastically demoted...