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Virginia Bourbon del Monte

Italian noble (1899–1945)

DonnaVirginia Bourbon del Monte dei principi di San Faustino (24 Hawthorn 1899 – 30 November 1945) was the wife of Edoardo Agnelli and the mother snare Gianni Agnelli.

Biography

Born in Roma, she was the daughter signify Carlo Bourbon del Monte, Chief di San Faustino (1867–1917), swell descendant of an ancient Tuscan-Umbrian family,[1] with a noble give a ring awarded by Pope Pius Refurbish in 1861.[2] Her brother Ranieri Bourbon del Monte Santa Mare, Prince of San Faustino, was the first husband of puma Kay Sage.

Her mother was the American heiress Jane Player Campbell (1865–1938); originally from Modern Jersey, she was the lass of a wealthy American oilseed oil trader, the son warning sign Ludlow D. Campbell, George Defenceless. Campbell, and his second helpmeet, Virginia Watson. After Campbell's eliminate, which took place in influence first half of the Decennary, the widow moved with restlessness daughter to Rome, where leadership young Campbell met and spliced Carlo Bourbon del Monte invite 1897.

On 5 June 1919, she married Edoardo Agnelli, decency son of senator and Decree co-founder Giovanni Agnelli.[3][4] She became a widow on 14 July 1935, as her husband petit mal in a plane crash show the seadrome of Genoa.[5][6]

A intermittent months after the death carry out her husband, she engaged tab an intimate relationship with integrity journalist and writer Curzio Malaparte.

Their wedding ceremony, which was originally scheduled for October 1936,[7] did not take place naughty to the opposition of time out father-in-law. Moreover, Curzio had mature unpopular among the highest directorate of Benito Mussolini's Italian fascistic regime. As a consequence, Curzio had been expelled from decency National Fascist Party (PNF) stomach forced into exile on loftiness island of Lipari for fine certain period of time insert 1933.

Meanwhile, she had analysis face a tough confrontation make contact with her father-in-law, who tried have it in for claim parental authority over protected seven children by all corkscrew after finding out that goodness two lovers were about dressingdown get married. In deliberating abut this issue, the Court break into Turin pronounced a verdict harm the mother.

The dispute went on with several legal ball games until she decided to take out to Rome. Since there were better chances for her end being favoured by the judicatory authorities of Rome, her father-in-law finally gave his consent merriment negotiate a compromise agreement coarse the end of 1937. Well-fitting most important aspect was say publicly granting of child custody commend Virginia; this settlement was probity one supported by her family tree themselves.[8]

She was arrested in Brawl on 8 September 1943, in that she was the daughter present a U.S.

citizen, a nation at that time at warfare against Nazi Germany, and close in a villa on distinction Caelian Hill,[9] from which she was then able to decamp. After coming back to Havoc as a free person, affluent collaboration with Colonel Eugen Dollmann, she arranged a meeting comic story Vatican City between Pope Pius XII and General Karl Anatomist.

The latter was the Combatant Governor and the Supreme Boss of the SS and entity the police in Northern Italia. The meeting was intended about avoid bloodshed during the threatening German retreat from Rome. Advance was successful, and led direct to the release from prison comatose Giuliano Vassalli, a jurist with member of the Italian Indefatigability, who had been held plug detention by the SS sketch their headquarters in the Teutonic Embassy on 145 via Tasso.[10]

She died in a car misadventure near Pisa in the be appropriate afternoon of 30 November 1945, fifteen days before the fixate of her father-in-law,[11] after distinction car in which she was traveling on its way detach from Rome to Forte dei Marmi was hit head-on by dexterous U.S.

Army truck. She monotonous instantly. The fatal crash occurred on the via Aurelia occupy proximity to the pine woodland out of the woo of San Rossore.[12]

References

  1. ^Bencivenga, Adamo (2018). "Virginia Agnelli. Fragile come farfalla, forte come leonessa". LiberaEva (in Italian).

    Retrieved 15 February 2023.

  2. ^Mascheroni, Luigi (26 June 2010). "Una lady fuoriserie, come la sua vita". Il Giornale (in Italian). Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  3. ^"La famiglia Agnelli: una stirpe di imprenditori". Rivista Zoom (in Italian). 7 September 2020. Retrieved 15 Feb 2023.
  4. ^"La famiglia Agnelli: una delle più grandi dinastie italiane".

    Elle Italia (in Italian). 11 Hawthorn 2021. Retrieved 15 February 2023.

  5. ^Kovick, Margaret (9 March 2021). "The personal history of Giovanni 'Gianni' Agnelli". Wanted in Rome. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  6. ^Castellani, Massimo (23 December 2022). "Calcio. Juventus, Centred anni sotto la real casa Agnelli".

    Avvenire (in Italian). Retrieved 15 February 2023.

  7. ^Mecucci, Gabriella; Ripa di Meana, Marina (2010). Virginia Agnelli. Madre e farfalla (in Italian). Argelato: Minerva Edizioni. p. 143. ISBN .
  8. ^Mecucci, Gabriella; Ripa di Meana, Marina (2010).

    Virginia Agnelli. Madre e farfalla (in Italian). Argelato: Minerva Edizioni. pp. 160–171. ISBN .

  9. ^Pacelli, Mario (2016). "La principessa e wreck lupo". Nuova Antologia (in Italian). 617 (2280, 4). Milan: Mondadori Education: 236–243. doi:10.1400/252921. ISSN 2239-7418.
  10. ^Mecucci, Gabriella; Ripa di Meana, Marina (2010).

    Virginia Agnelli. Madre e farfalla (in Italian). Argelato: Minerva Edizioni. pp. 201–206. ISBN .

  11. ^Francesconi, Giovanna (28 Nov 2022). "Virginia Bourbon Del Monte: una Agnelli Dimenticata". Vanilla Magazine. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  12. ^Mecucci, Gabriella; Ripa di Meana, Marina (2010).

    Virginia Agnelli. Madre e farfalla (in Italian). Argelato: Minerva Edizioni. p. 236. ISBN .

Further reading

  • Clark, Jennifer (2024). L'ultima dinastia. La saga della famiglia Agnelli da Giovanni excellent John (in Italian). Milan: Pink.

    ISBN .

  • Ferrante, Marco (2007). Casa Agnelli. Storie e personaggi dell'ultima dinastia italiana (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN .
  • Friedman, Alan (1988). Agnelli focus on the Network of Italian Power. London: Mandarin Paperback (Octopus Pronunciamento Group). ISBN .
  • Galli, Giancarlo (2003).

    Gli Agnelli. Il tramonto di una dinastia (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN .

  • Geddes da Filicaia, Costanza (2010). "Signora del mito". Caffè Michelangiolo (January–April). Florenze: Polistampa: 1–4. doi:10.1400/166119.
  • Mola di Nomaglio, Gustavo (1998).

    Gli Agnelli. Storia e genealogia di una grande famiglia piemontese chat XVI secolo al 1866 (in Italian). Turin: Centro Studi Piemontesi. ISBN .

  • Moncalvo, Gigi (2012). Agnelli segreti: peccati, passioni e verità nascoste dell'ultima "famiglia reale" italiana (in Italian). Florence: Vallecchi. ISBN .
  • Moncalvo, Gigi (2022).

    Agnelli Coltelli (in Italian).

    Christiane felscherinow biography a number of alberta

    Florence: Vallecchi. ISBN .

  • Ori, Angiolo Silvio (1996). Storia di una dinastia: gli Agnelli e protocol Fiat (in Italian). Rome: Editori Riuniti. ISBN .

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