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Hace 3 días · The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( Italian: Regno delle Due Sicilie) [1] was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1861 under the control of a cadet branch of the Spanish Bourbons. [2] The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by population and land area in Italy before the Italian unification, comprising Sicily and most of the area of ...
Hace 3 días · Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy. Over the course of the 17th century, Savoy sought to replace Spain as the dominant power in Northern Italy. Savoy consisted of two main geographic segments; Piedmont, which contained the capital Turin, and the Duchy of Aosta on the Italian side of the Alps, with the Duchy of Savoy and County of Nice ...
Hace 4 días · Emanuele Filiberto is an Italian member of the House of Savoy. He has a net worth of $100 million. Known as the Prince of Venice. Born in 1972, in Geneva, Switzerland, he is the son of Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Naples and Marina Ricolfi Doria. Interestingly, he grew up as an exile before he made a public appearance on TV.
Hace 3 días · In April 1895, she played the lead role in a romantic and poetic fantasy, Princess Lointaine, by little-known 27-year-old poet Edmond Rostand. It was not a monetary success and lost 200,000 francs, but it began a long theatrical relationship between Bernhardt and Rostand.
Hace 3 días · In the light of all this scholarly activity, Margaret Howell’s thought-provoking study of King Henry III’s queen, Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth-Century England, has come as a welcome, timely and much-needed addition.
Hace 5 días · The exhibition “Mediaeval Women of Cyprus”, just opened in old Famagusta, is a joint project of two Turkish Cypriots, the mediaevalist Ahmet Hilmi and artist Semra Bayhanli. The show, that was ...
Hace 2 días · For one day the King showed him the Princess (Mary), then two years old, in her nurse's arms. He drew near, knelt, and kissed her hand, for that alone is kissed by any duke or noble of the land, let his degree be what it may; nor does any one see her without doffing his bonnet, and making obeisance to her.
