Word: romagna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in a poor stone hut, there is now no palace that the native peasant girl of the Romagna might not enter. She has been a toiler in the fields, a gatherer of grapes, a shepherdess, a household servant, even a tavern tap-wench. Today, by a pretty pirouette of Fate, she is the consort of a man on whom Italy has bestowed the Collar of the Annunziata. He who wears that supreme badge and his wedded wife are both legally "cousins of the king...
...odor of the incense alone disturbed me so that sometimes it gave me unbearable discomfort. At last the notes of the organ closed the ceremony. The crowd swarmed out. Along the street was a satisfied chatter. At midday there smoked on our table the traditional and excellent noodles of Romagna...
...Cesare Borgiu (1476-1507), of poisonous reputation, Duke of Valentinois and Romagna, son of Pope Alexander VI. An archbishop at 16, he asked (at 22) that he be permitted to renounce the priesthood and his father granted it " for the good of his soul." He died in battle...