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Recently the President of the academy, a senator named Tommaso Tittoni, was stricken with paralysis. A prominent member, Professor Alfredo Trombetti, went swimming at the Lido last summer, drowned in the lukewarm Adriatic. Giocchino Volpe, secretary of the academy, has had three recent operations on his defective ear. But of all the academicians, most luckless is Antonio Beltramelli, Fascist author of Il Uomo Nuovo, "The New Man," a paeon praising Il Duce. To celebrate his immortality he dyed his remaining hair a rich and glossy black. The hair dye soaked into his skull, affected his brain, according to his doctor...
Married. Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria di Savoia, Prince of Piedmont, Crown Prince of Italy, 25; to Marie José Charlotte Sophie Amelie Henriette Gabrielle de Saxe-Coburg-et-Gotha, Princess of Belgium, 23; at Rome, by His Eminence Pietro Cardinal Maffi, in the presence of the Kings of Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria, the Prince of Monaco, the infante Fernando of Spain representing his brother-in-law King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and the Duke of York representing the King-Emperor George V. In token of great gladness King Vittorio Emanuele ordered 6,000 Italian criminals pardoned...
Gendarmes saluted. Out stepped His Royal Highness Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, Prince of Piedmont, his sleek hair shining like patent leather, medals gleaming, a pale blue sash across the front of his grey-green silver epauletted uniform. A band struck up the Italian royal hymn...
Engaged. Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, 25, Prince of Piedmont, Crown Prince of Italy; and Princess...
...most interesting of the earlier Italian Renaissance painters taken from the point of view of his life if not of his art is Tommaso Guidi, nicknamed Masaccio; the son of Sir Giovanni de Simone Guidi, a notary of Florence...