Family
The Franchetti family were an Italian Jewish family who, from the 18th century, were one of the wealthiest families in the Mediterranean. Afdera Franchetti was the daughter of Baron Raimondo Franchetti, a famous explorer who traveled extensively in Ethiopia, during the 1920s and 1930s. He was a consultant to Benito Mussolini and served as an envoy to Ethiopia for the Italian government during the 1930s. Raimondo's grandmother was Sara Louise de Rothschild (1834-1924)]. Baron Franchetti died in a plane crash in 1935, when Afdera was three years old. Her brother, the Baron Raimondo Nanuk Franchetti, was a friend of author Ernest Hemingway, who hunted with him in San Gaetano.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“It is turning three hundred years
On our cisatlantic shore
For family after family name.
We’ll make it three hundred more”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Nor does the family even move about together,
But every son would have his motor cycle,
And daughters ride away on casual pillions.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“A fellow oughtn’t to let his family property go to pieces.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)