Word: traviglia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baillie-Stewart, was tried for espionage and high treason in the full glare of publicity. In Italy last week a secret military tribunal met behind locked doors to try the case of 25-year-old half-French, half-Italian Camilla Agliardi of Brescia and her lover, Warrant Officer Ugo Traviglia. They had been in jail for months, but only a handful of people in all Italy knew they had been arrested. Even Warrant Officer Traviglia's wife did not know what had become of him until two days before the trial. The charge was simple. The beautiful Camilla seduced...
...courtyard of Fort Braschi at dawn Ugo Traviglia was marched before a firing squad. Dramatically he begged his executioners' pardon, asked to be shot in the breast, facing the rifles with his eyes unbound. It was not granted. Ugo Traviglia was blindfolded, shot in the back...
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