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Striking a blow for freedom: Jad Adams traces the momentous and paradoxical consquences of a failed assassination attempt.(Cross Current)(Felice Orsini)
; DASHING ITALIAN PATRIOT Felice Orsini received a rapturous welcome...liberal democracies today. Orsini was born in Meldola, in 1819...Fulham Road, west London. Orsini was captured by the Austrians...Mantua on a Sunday morning. Orsini's account of his escape was...Memoirs and Adventures of ...
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The Orsini affair and the crisis of 1858: Terry Jenkins explains why a failed assassination attempt on Napoleon III brought down the British government in 1858.
; ...betrayal of their cause. The ringleader, Felice Orsini, and his associate, Pierri, were...the public debate surrounding the Orsini affair also raised sensitive questions...governments when they learned that Orsini, and most of his fellow conspirators...
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The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere.(Book review)
; ...her influence uncertain. Felice came into her own only with...prestigious, well-endowed old Roman Orsini family. Political maneuvering...other power rested, consumed Felice's considerable energies and...direction and to ask how Felice's story illuminates the rest...history. In this context I find ...
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Pope's Daughter' paints portrait of power
; ...matriarch of the Orsini family and its estates...1503-1513) acknowledged Felice as his daughter from...frequent absences, Felice took charge lofty...with Gian Giordano Orsini, leader of a powerful Roman family. Orsini, a generation older...Murphy writes that Felice "could now ...
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Books: HISTORY - When a horoscope tells you not to tie the knot The Pope's Daughter By Caroline P Murphy FABER pounds 16.99 pounds 15.99 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897
; ...wedding day when Felice passed from illegitimate...obscurity into the Orsini family archives...less convincing.) Felice certainly warrants...Rome and persuading Orsini mercenaries to cancel...Vintage? Or did Felice stay wealthy by counting...her exasperating Orsini sons, her ...
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She had Papa for a father Damian Thompson relishes this Life of a pope's daughter who made Lucrezia Borgia look boring
; ...allowed the truculent Felice to turn down suitor...married Gian Giordano Orsini he stayed away from...the congregation. Felice's low profile was misleading. When the Orsini threatened to attack...stepson, at which point Felice had to persuade Pope...to confiscate the Orsini estates. ...
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THE POPE'S DAUGHTERBOOKS / Nonfiction
; ...Roman baron Gian Giordano Orsini. Marriage was the one role...multiple vows attest, and Felice showed a glint of steel that...his name. As Murphy notes, Felice acted ''the role that she...alliance with the powerful Orsini family. When Gian Giordano died in 1517, Felice became regent of the ...
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Anniversaries.(Features)
; ...Elizabeth Bennett had the world's first Caesarean section. 1858: An attempt was made on Napoleon III's life in Paris. Count Felice Orsini threw a bomb at him as he passed on his way to the Paris opera. 1878: A new invention, the telephone was demonstrated...
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how to spend pounds 600 in Tuscany
; Three nights at Borgo San Felice This pretty medieval hamlet, which has been turned into a...departures between May 14 and June 24.14 nights at Podere Orsini Villa Podere Orsini is a secluded stone farmhouse with five double bedrooms. All...
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Anniversaries: On This Day.(Features)
; ...Elizabeth Bennet had the world's first Caesarean section. 1858: An attempt was made on Napoleon III's life in Paris. Count Felice Orsini threw a bomb at him as he passed on his way to the Paris opera. 1878: A new invention, the telephone, was demonstrated...
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