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Then comes Prince Torlonia, lord of earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Lord of Earth | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Then comes the armed guard of Prince Torlonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Lord of Earth | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Then comes the hounds of the armed guard of Prince Torlonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Lord of Earth | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Lord of Earth | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Divorced. Francis X. (for Xavier) Shields, 38, former No. i ranking U.S. tennis player (during the '305) and Davis Cupper (1934); by Donna Marina Torlonia Shields, 32, daughter of the late Prince Torlonia of Italy; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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