Word: sforza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood conditions in Harvard Square have abated enough to make navigation practical as far as the Yard, the Vagabond has several lectures of special interest to visit today. Count Carlo Sforza, formerly French Ambassador to Italy, will speak in Harvard 6 at 2 o'clock on "The New Fascist State", and the opportunity to add to his knowledge of this great experiment from a first-hand authority should not be missed by any vagabonder...
Among several other prominent men who will address the course in the near future are: Count Sforza, former Italian Ambassador to Paris; Charles A. Beard; R. G. Hawtrey, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, Whitehall, London; and Professor M. O. Hudson...
Post-Versailles. Woodrow Wilson remains the hero of the War's aftermath, sane among a confusion of tongues, a maligned solitary. .... Franco-German friendship needs patience, faith. Goethe believed it possible. So may we believe.?Count Carlo Sforza, one-time (1920) Foreign Minister of Italy, later (1922) Italian Ambassador to Paris, in rehearsing post-War diplomacy in Europe...
...Born at Florence in 1469 at the apogee of Florentine glory under Lorenzo de Medici ("The Magnificent"), Niccolo Machiavelli remains the most celebrated commentator on the brilliant and ruthless statesmanship of the Borgia, Sforza and Medici. When the Prince was translated into English many an Anglo-Saxon was appalled that so many truths about the baseness of men and how to play upon it should ever have been set down in type. Machiavelli was suspected by simple souls of having been the devil himself, and the adjective "Machiavellian" was introduced into English with the connotation "diabolic." Machiavellian maxims...
...which she then claimed. The question was further complicated by the action of the Italian poet, d'Annunzio, in seizing Fiume (Sept. 12, 1919) and annexing it to Italy. These difficulties were smoothed out by the Treaty of Rapallo (November, 1920) negotiated for Italy by Count Sforza, Foreign Minister in the last Giolitti Cabinet, who, in a letter to the YugoSlavian Government, recognized its claims to the adjacent port of Barros. In Article 4 of the Treaty of Rapallo the contracting Powers recognized the independence of Fiume in perpetuity. Article 5 set up a special mission to delimit...