Word: torlonias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then comes the armed guard of Prince Torlonia...
Then comes the hounds of the armed guard of Prince Torlonia...
...first noteworthy member of the Torlonia family (which came from France to Italy in the 18th Century) was Giovanni, a rag & bone merchant who became one of Europe's greatest financiers, lent money to kings and even to Napoleon's high-living kin. He bought a couple of ancient dukedoms, but Roman aristocracy-whose thin blue lineage is longer than almost anybody else's-sneered at the upstart. At one of Giovanni's lavish fetes, the French novelist Stendhal overheard a great Roman lady say: "Torlonia should not come to his own balls . . . One sees only...
Present master of this domain is the first Alessandro's great-grandson, 23-year-old Don Alessandro Carlo Paolo Giulio Augusto Francesco Romano Torlonia, Prince Torlonia, Prince of Fucino, Prince of Canino and Musignamo, Duke of Ceri, Marquess of Romavecchia. To prevent Torlonia tenants from acquiring any permanent rights to their land, the family has forbidden them to plant trees or build huts. The Torlonias' armed guard no longer has to rely on the hounds; it rides in jeeps, patrolling day & night, along a 33-mile road surrounding Fucino...
Pierino was arrested and the prince taken to a hospital, where he is recovering. But the great lord faced other difficulties. The shooting brought forth anti-Torlonia editorials in the Marxist press. This week a group of Christian Democratic deputies proposed that the Fucino acres be expropriated by the government and turned over to the peasants who work them...