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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