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:
“At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another—generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (20th century)
“... a family I know ... bought an acre in the country on which to build a house. For many years, while they lacked the money to build, they visited the site regularly and picnicked on a knoll, the site’s most attractive feature. They liked so much to visualize themselves as always there, that when they finally built they put the house on the knoll. But then the knoll was gone. Somehow they had not realized they would destroy it and lose it by supplanting it with themselves.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)
“Chant lessons and your family will prosper; drunken ditties will lead you to ruin.”
—Chinese proverb.