Civil Passion
In 1880 Franchetti moved to Città di Castello and in 1900 married Alice Hallgarten born in New York in 1874, with whom he moved to into the recently completed Villa della Montesca. The educator and reformer Maria Montessori held her first training course for teachers in 1909 at Villa della Montesca.
Franchetti died of mysterious causes, perhaps suicide, after the dawn of the defeat in the Caporetto in World War I and left his estate to a charitable organization and his farm to the farmers who worked it.
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