Victor Emmanuel III
Americannoun
noun
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"Better exile than prison," wrote former Italian Prime Minister Francesco Nitti to King Victor Emmanuel III in 1925, explaining why he'd left Italy when the Fascists took power.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2021
Leone, Natalia recalls, was arrested whenever an important politician came to town, and certainly whenever the King, Victor Emmanuel III, visited Turin.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 22, 2019
Blinkhorn believed that Mussolini, who was “panic-stricken” by this resistance, might have resigned at this point if the king, Victor Emmanuel III, had demanded it.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2018
In 1943, Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 25, 2018
In fact, it seemed to us the pleasantest apartment in Rome, where the apartments of passing strangers were not so proud under Pius IX. as they are under Victor Emmanuel III.
From Roman Holidays, and Others by Howells, William Dean
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