Word: sardinia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little kingdom of Sardinia, the Italian states swept aside the Papal authority, threw off the Austrian yoke and laid the foundations of what has become under Mussolini, one of the Great Powers. And in this process of resurrection and reconstruction no man did move than Count Camillo di Gavour...
While Il Duce triumphed at Genoa, King Vittorio Emanuele embarked at Civita Vecchia (port of Rome) upon the royal yacht Savoia for Sardinia. Escorting the Savoia steamed four dreadnoughts, three cruisers, 22 destroyers...
...group of petty states. During that period the great Mazzini "watered the ideal of a united Italy with the blood of martyrs." Coincidentally Count Cavour, famed "Bismarck of the Princes of Piedmont," built up their power until his bluff, hearty master, Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Sardinia, became the first King of a united Italy. His son, later Umberto I, married the Princess Margherita, and their reign began in 1878 and ended in 1900. Since then the widowed Queen Margherita had retired almost entirely from public life and resided chiefly in the country. Benito Mussolini issued a proclamation...
King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto embarked on the royal yacht Savoia. Members of the Italian Parliament boarded the Citte de Trieste. Both ships steamed out in the Tyrrhenian as dark settled down. They steamed ahead laying a course between Sardinia and Corsica, their lights glittered on the water, but on all the wide expanse of sea no other lights were visible. Yet ships, big and little, airplanes and dirigibles were speeding through the darkness about them. A week's sham battle at sea was in progress. The "Red" fleet based on Sardinia was to try to capture...
...Bravo" and "Yeah." De Muro, they read, is known as the greatest tenor in Italy. He lives in Milan, where he sings at La Scala, owns a fine house, runs a cork factory-the biggest cork factory in Italy, for De Muro does not compromise. He was born in Sardinia, where his success with serenades was so embarrassing that his parents, people of quality, decided that it would perhaps be more becoming if he turned professional. In 1911, at the age of 28, he made his debut in the Costanzi Theatre at Rome, created a sensation which...