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Auction: 16003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 313

Italy, Republic, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Grand Cross set of Insignia, by Cravanzola, Rome, sash Badge, 99mm including tower suspension x 70mm, silver-gilt and enamel, silver and maker's mark to suspension ring; Star, 88mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, nearly extremely fine, with full sash riband, and lapel rosette, in fitted case of issue (2)

Carlo Maria Franzero, was born in Turin, Italy, December 1892. He trained as a journalist in his native Turin before fleeing Italy and Mussolini before the Second World War, taking up a position with The Daily Telegraph, 1941-46. Following the war he remained in London, serving as a Foreign Correspondent for Il Tempo, the Italian Daily. His fame however was found for his biographical works of historic figures, including the works The Memoirs of Pontius Pilate, The Life and Times of Nero and The Life and Times of Tarquin the Etruscan. The most prolific work however was The Life and Times of Cleopatra, which was the inspiration for Jospeh Mankiewicz's film, Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor in 1963. He died in London, 29.6.1986.

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