Word: marquisate
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Marquis Bottini, staunch friend of the Prince of Monte Nevoso (Gabriele d'Annunzio), went to London town to sell Gabriele's manuscripts. It was asserted that Gabriele intends to build with the proceeds a great memorial to the late Signora Eleanora Duse, famed Italian actress. Once an American...
At an interview in which the Dictator (real name Marquis de Estella) defended his regime, he was described as "robust, determined, democratic, above medium height, with a small bald patch surrounded by dark hair and with an upper lip bristling with mustachios."
In the days when the Black Prince shattered the Genoese cross-bowmen at Crecy, and Sir John Chandos was the model of knightly chivalry for all the young squires of England, to be a duke or a marquis, or even a baronet, meant something. When the sword of the sovereign...
The entire library building situated at No. 33 East 36th street, Manhattan, is built of white marble with a magnificently sculptured frieze on the outside. In the hall, the walls of white marble and mosaic form an exquisite setting for the bronze doors, which are masterpieces of Italian cire perdue...
Italy. The Marquis of Paterno, Italian representative at Moscow, informed the Soviet Government that it had been recognized by Italy and that an Ambassador would shortly be appointed. Italy thus became the second Power to recognize the Bolshevik regime, the first having been Great Britain (TIME, Feb. 11).