Word: umbertos
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...evening last month a popular, mild-mannered priest, Don Umberto Pessina, was walking along a lonely lane to his home in San Martino, suburb of Correggio (where the painter of that name was born). There was a bright orange flash among the yellow fireflies. Don Umberto fell, shot through the neck. He managed to crawl to his doorstep, where the assassin crushed in his skull...
...Ousted Umberto II, who joined his family five days later., took for his exile the title of Count of Sarre after an ancient castle of the Savoys in Piedmont...
...Gasperi and his cabinet, the chiefs of the armed forces and other notables, including a wisp-bearded Garibaldi Army veteran with medals of 1870 gleaming on his shirt of fireman's red. (The Sartorio mural, Italy Unified, had been shrouded: it showed republican Garibaldi shaking hands with Umberto's great-grandfather.) Because some 200,000 votes-which could not possibly alter the people's verdict-were still uncounted, the court adjourned without deciding who was legally chief of state...
Promptly the King's henchmen gathered at the Quirinal, where Umberto had made his last farewells and was packing. The King apparently saw a chance, decided not to go-and royalist leaders whipped up riots in Rome, Naples, Palermo. Alarmed, De Gasperi hastened up the hill and told Umberto to leave at once. In a rage, the scion of Savoy scrapped a conciliatory message to the new republic, substituting a truculent protest. Then he donned a grey suit and porkpie hat, stole away to Ciampino airport and flew to join his family in Portugal. In a few days...
...Vale. At week's end, Umberto II-called the king of the May because he reigned only during that month-let it be known he would not attend the ceremonies inaugurating the First Italian Republic. His advisers, mostly Roman aristocrats, had polled their servants and country retainers, naively informed him "the common people" wanted their king. When he found out differently, Umberto, surprised and pained, lingered on in Rome in the hope that monarchist demonstrations would grow into a popular demand that he keep the crown. But his Queen Marie-José and their four children had already left...