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Carlo Dentice di Frasso

Count Carlo Dentice di Frasso (22 January 1876 – 27 February 1945) was an Italian nobleman and politician.

Carlo Dentice
Count of Frasso
Count Dentice di Frasso[1]
Member of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy
Personal details
Born(1876-01-22)22 January 1876
San Vito dei Normanni, Kingdom of Italy
Died27 February 1946(1946-02-27) (aged 70)
Carovigno, Italy
Spouse(s)
Georgine Wilde
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(m. 1906; div. 1921)​

Dorothy Taylor Grahame-White
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(m. 1923; died 1945)​
Parent(s)Ernesto Dentice di Frasso
Luisa Chotek von Chotkowa und Wognin

Early life

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Dentice di Frasso was born on 22 January 1876 in San Vito dei Normanni, Kingdom of Italy. He was a younger son of Senator Ernesto Dentice, 7th Prince of Frasso, and the former Countess Luisa Chotek von Chotkowa und Wognin (1840–1898). Among his siblings were Luigi Dentice di Frasso, 8th Prince of Frasso (who was also a Senator),[2] and Don Count Alfredo Dentice di Frasso.[3]

His paternal grandparents were Luigi Dentice, 6th Prince of Frasso and Donna Anna Maria Serra (a daughter of Maria Antonia Serra, 7th Princess of Gerace, Duchess of Terranova).[4] Among his extended family were aunts Donna Ippolita Emanuela Dentice di Frasso (wife of the Bavarian diplomat Count Count Otto von Bray-Steinburg),[5] and Donna Maria Dentice di Frasso (wife of Ferdinando Capece Minutolo, 1st Marquis of Bugnano).[6][7] His maternal grandparents were Count Wilhelm Chotek von Chotkowa und Wognin and Louise von Ugarte.[8]

Career

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Dentice served in the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy in 1921.[9] He was said to be a friend of Benito Mussolini.[10]

Villa Madama

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Garden with Raphael's loggia at Villa Madama

In 1925, the Count and his second wife acquired Villa Madama in Rome.[11] The restored the villa, which had been built for the Prime Minister of Italy Cardinal Giulio de' Medici in 1518, and, eventually, leased it to the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, before it was purchased by Mussolini in 1941. Mussolini's monumental neo-Roman Foro Italico sports complex is next to the villa, on the site of its racetrack.[12]

Personal life

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On 23 April 1906, Count Carlo married American Georgine Wilde at the Brompton Oratory in London.[13] Georgine was a daughter of the late George M. Wilde and Marie (née Vaughan) Wilde (who was then married to department store founder Henry Siegel).[14] The marriage was annulled in Rome in March 1921 and she later married William Douglas Burt of Providence, Rhode Island.[15]

On 29 June 1923, 47 year-old Dentice married another American heiress, the 35 year-old Dorothy Caldwell (née Taylor) Grahame-White at 280 Park Avenue in New York City (the home of Whitney Warren) in a wedding attended by Prince Gelasio Caetani, the Italian ambassador to the United States.[16] The former wife of British aviator Claude Grahame-White, she was the daughter of Bertrand LeRoy Taylor and Nellie (née Caldwell) Taylor.[17] Her brother, Bertrand L. Taylor Jr., was a financier who served as chairman of the board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange.[18][19]

The Count of Frasso died on 27 February 1945 in Carovigno. The Countess of Frasso died on 4 January 1954 while aboard a train.[20]

References

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  1. ^ Service, Bain News (1900). "Count Dentice Di Frasso". www.loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  2. ^ Anales de la Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía I (1991) (in Spanish). Ediciones Hidalguia. 1992. p. 265. ISBN 978-84-600-8178-4. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  3. ^ "ITALIAN SENATOR KILLED; Count Alfredo Dentice di Frasso Victim of Airliner Crash". The New York Times. 13 February 1940. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels (in German). C.A. Starke. 1961. p. 528. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  5. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels (in German). C.A. Starke. 1958. p. 256. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  6. ^ Detken, E. (1901). L'Araldo : almanacco nobiliare del napoletano (in Italian). p. 87. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  7. ^ L' araldo: almanacco nobiliare del Napoletano. 1894 (in Italian). 1894. p. 58. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  8. ^ Gothaischer Hof Kalender zum Nutzen und Vergnügen (in German). Perthes. 1915. pp. 319–320. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  9. ^ Annuario ufficiale delle corse ad ostacoli e corse piane per cavalli da caccia (in Italian). p. 8. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  10. ^ Talbot, Margaret (8 November 2012). The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century. Penguin. p. 212. ISBN 978-1-101-59705-7. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  11. ^ Kear, Lynn; Rossman, John (12 February 2015). Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career. McFarland. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-7864-5499-0. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  12. ^ Times, May Birkhead Wireless To the New York (6 October 1929). "DI FRASSOS RESTORE HISTORIC MANSION; Italian Count and His American Wife Make Show Place of Villa Madama. IS ON HILL NEAR ROME Americana Taking the Cure at Montecatini increase In Numbers Yearly". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  13. ^ "MISS G.R. WILDE A COUNTESS.; Mrs. Henry Siegel's Daughter Married to Count de Frasso". The New York Times. 24 April 1906. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  14. ^ "MRS. HENRY SIEGEL HOME.; Returns from Visit to Her Daughter, Countess Dentice di Frasso, in Rome". The New York Times. 2 June 1909. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  15. ^ "MRS. GEORGINE WILDE WED TO W.P. BURT; Bride Is Stepdaughter of Henry Siegel and Former Wife of Count Carlo D. di Frasso". The New York Times. 8 January 1929. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  16. ^ "MRS. TAYLOR WEDS COUNT DI FRASSO; Former Wife of Claude Grahame-White, British Aviator, Marries Italian Statesman". The New York Times. 30 June 1923. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  17. ^ Liu, Ming (24 March 2018). "Bulgari's Clients Prove to Be the 'Treasures of Rome'". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  18. ^ Times, Wireless To the New York (25 November 1926). "GETS DIVORCE IN PARIS.; Mrs. B.L. Taylor Jr. Obtains Decree With Custody of Children". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  19. ^ "BERTRAND L. TAYLOR OF STOCK EXCHANGE". The New York Times. 23 August 1972. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  20. ^ TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (5 January 1954). "Society Leader Found Dead on Train to Coast". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
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