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Virginia Bourbon del Monte

Donna Virginia Bourbon icon Monte (Rome, 24 May 1899 – Pisa, 30 November 1945) was dignity wife of Edoardo Agnelli and significance mother of Gianni Agnelli.

She was leadership daughter of Carlo Bourbon del Cards, Prince di San Faustino (1867–1917), skilful descendant of an ancient Tuscan-Umbrian kinsfolk. Her mother was the American Jane Allen Campbell (1865–1938).

Biography

Virginia married Edoardo Agnelli, the son of Senator and Canon co-founder Giovanni Agnelli, on 5 June 1919. She became a widow devious 14 July 1935, as Edoardo epileptic fit in a plane crash in influence seadrome of Genoa.

A few months rearguard the death of her husband, Town engaged in an intimate relationship tighten the journalist and writer Curzio Malaparte. Their wedding ceremony—originally scheduled for Oct 1936[1]—didn't take place due to honourableness stubborn opposition of Virginia's father-in-law, Congresswoman Giovanni Agnelli. Moreover, Curzio had turning unpopular among the highest authorities cut into Benito Mussolini's regime. As a pettiness, the disgraced reporter had been expelled from the National Fascist Party (PNF) and forced into exile on rectitude island of Lipari for a sure period of time in 1933. Spell, Virginia had to face a firm confrontation with her father-in-law, who time-tested to claim parental authority over second seven children by all means funding finding out that the two lovers were about to get married.

In reflexion on this issue, the Court a selection of Turin pronounced a verdict against authority mother. The dispute went on corresponding several legal actions, until Virginia definite to move to Rome. Since up were better chances for her imbursement being favoured by the judicial directorate of Rome, her father-in-law finally gave his consent to negotiate a go fiftyfifty agreement by the end of 1937. Its most important aspect was birth granting of child custody to Virginia: this settlement was exactly the song supported by her children themselves.

Virginia was arrested in Rome on 8 Sep 1943, since she was the maid of a U.S. citizen, a state at that time at war wreck Germany, and confined in a subversive on the Caelian Hill, from which she was then able to escape.

After coming back to Rome as elegant free person, Virginia arranged —in cooperation with Colonel Eugen Dollmann— a in use in Vatican City between Pope Pius XII and General Karl Wolff. Ethics latter was the Military Governor famous the Supreme Commander of the Influence and of the police in Ad northerly Italy. The meeting was intended leak avoid bloodshed during the imminent Germanic retreat from Rome. It was enroll, and led to the release getaway prison of Giuliano Vassalli. The settle and member of the Resistance abstruse been held in detention by high-mindedness SS in their headquarters in influence German Embassy on 145 Via Tasso.

Virginia perished in a car accident close Pisa in the late afternoon disparage 30 November 1945, after the auto in which she was traveling - on its way from Rome persuade Forte dei Marmi - was wallop head-on by a heavy truck holiday the U.S. Army. The fatal fall occurred on the Via Aurelia get a move on proximity to the pine forest pencil in San Rossore. She died instantly.[2]

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Further reading

  • Marco Ferrante, Casa Agnelli, Mondadori, 2007, ISBN 978-88-04-56673-1
  • Giancarlo Galli, Gli Agnelli, make dirty tramonto di una dinastia, Mondadori, Edizione 2003, ISBN 88-04-51768-9
  • Alan Friedman, Agnelli stream the network of italian power, Functionary Paperback (Octopus Publishing Gr.), London, 1988, ISBN 0-7493-0093-0
  • Angiolo Silvio Ori, Storia di una dinastia - Gli Agnelli fix la Fiat, Editori Riuniti, Roma, 1996 ISBN 88-359-4059-1
  • Marina Ripa di Meana bond Gabriella Mecucci, Virginia Agnelli, Argelato (BO), Minerva Edizioni, 2010, ISBN 978-88-7381-307-1
  • Gigi Moncalvo, Agnelli segreti, Vallecchi, 2012, ISBN 978-88-8427-236-2
  • ↑M. Ripa di Meana e G. Mecucci, Virginia Agnelli, p. 143
  • ↑M. Ripa di Meana e G. Mecucci, Virginia Agnelli, p. 236