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Italian-born, Salmaggi began in the U.S. as a singing teacher with the claim of having taught Italy's Queen Margherita how to play the mandolin. In 1915 he took his first plunge: a production of Pagliacci at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in which he sang the part of Canio himself. As a tenor, he was a spectacular bust. But he took in $7,000 at the box office...
...Among other women in his life: Revolutionist Angelica Balabanoff; Barmaid Rachele Guidi, his common-law wife (later legal) for ten years; the brilliant exiled Jewess, Margherita Sarfatti; the sisters Maria and Francesca Ferroni; and slim, brown-eyed Claretta Petacci, daughter of a former Vatican surgeon...
Benito Mussolini's official biographer, Margherita Sarfatti, writes that one day, as Il Duce was pacing his great room in the Chigi Palace, she asked him what his ambition...
Born. To Princess Marie-José of Piedmont, and Crown Prince Umberto of Italy; their third child, a daughter; in Naples. Name: Maria Gabriella Gennaro Adelaide Adelgonda Giuseppina Felicita Margherita. Weight: 8 Ibs. 10 oz. Her maternal grandmother is Dowager Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians...
...Paris last week for an "indefinite stay" was elegant, hollow-eyed Margherita Sarfatti, once a great personal friend and professional colleague of Benito Mussolini, now in disgrace in Italy because her family, although old honored and Venetian, is also Jewish. Margherita and Benito met when she was art critic and he editor of the Socialist Avanti in Milan, long before he became famous. Through the comparatively tranquil late '20s and up until 1935, when the Duce made most of his private income by writing for the Hearst newspapers, Madame Sarfatti was his "ghost" and manager. When the Dictator wanted...