King’s Ransom. By some standards Victor Emmanuel seemed to do very well indeed. Canny King Umberto took out £1,000,000 insurance a short time before he was assassinated in 1900. Victor Emmanuel III ...

EVER since that fine day in 1870 when the troops of King Victor Emmanuel II penetrated a breach they had made in the Porta Pia and entered the city of Rome, there has been an endless conflict between ...

MILAN (Reuters) - The remains of Victor Emmanuel III, who reigned as Italy's king through two world wars and died in exile in 1947, were flown back from Egypt on Sunday for reburial at a family ...

24.5 x 22 x 3 cm. (9.6 x 8.7 x 1.2 in.) ...

Attempting to smooth relations with Italy’s Jewish community, the long-exiled heirs to Italy’s abolished monarchy paid homage at the country’s foremost monument to Nazi barbarity. But the gesture over ...

Official Catalogue of the Pictures contributed to the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, in the Picture Gallery of the Crystal Palace. First Edition. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., Publishers, ...