The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-17
IL ITALIAN HAzET, PRINCE.
Scandal in a Roman Family-A Title Bought
"A Five Times UnseRted Deputy.

Scandal in q Roman Family-A Title Bought
"A Five Times Unseated Deputy.
Adventures like Cagliostro and Casanova
can still make their way in Europe. as is shown
by the strange story Of the Prince OF Carovigno.
who has been rejected five times from the Ital-
ian Chamber OF Deputies. The title is q genu-
inc one, and the Prince has a legal right to it.
though there is nothing ~princely in his birth or
his career. which he has recently made public
in a pamphlet. He is 81 years OF age. n native
OF Trieste. where his parents kept a porter's
lodge. and his name is Camille Ventura. He
was trained for a domestic servant and served
several Austrian and Italian noblefamtlies IN
til he became valet to Count Knfstein,
wTI f0ss p the a%PPR Sanach as de- d % ! TSa
counts wife. by birth a Princess Odescalchi,
belonging TO tho highest Roman artst9eracy'
younger than herself. and turned over e him,
lire i$SOO,OOOj OF her private fortune; When
she came TO her senses she called In the Odes-
SHIchi family Tni TO sa hell, hsr Fe IoR ssSk h %bj %9n sbs
family lost. and the Princess is now confined
under guard in one OF the Odescalchi estates in
With his late mIstress's money safe in his
possession young Ventura r. determines ni liz to S SnI9X
like to be a PRINCE, and soon found an old and
extremely poor Neapolitan noble. tho Prince OF
S s6n ~ Eetarn T for 1850 1885, l re $685. ss9Rso H dowa as M md
a pension OF 200 lire (S4OJ a month. The Nea-
politan nobility was indignant, and rcmon-
strated with the oil Prince. but .he stuck 10 his
bargain. saying. h was starving. and At ~
years Of age could have oundn no work but that
of a street sweeper, for none OF his class was
likely 10 help him. The adoption entitled Ven
tUra to the rank OF prince Immediately. though
In Italy rank no longer gives any privileges.
The new Prince then determined 70 enter
Parliament, He presented himself as u Social
ist candidate TO the electors OF Pietrasantn, on
the Tuscany coast. and threw money about NV
ishly. He was elected, but the Chnmber, OF
| Deputies would not admit him, alleging that
he was under the legal age Tor n raIresentl;
tive, thirty years. He was. returned a second
| time, and again rejected for he same reason.
Al the third election, he had attained the statu.
! tory age. but the Chamber refused to accept
he was not in Italian. Naturalization papers
were prepared for him. whilO Pietrasanta
elected MN for the fourth time, but the
Odescalchi family eXerted. its lnnuenco, 10
prevent their Issuing, and Tor the iourth tIne
he WAS rejected. An attempt 20 PROVE that ne
| had bribed at the election failed, and the reason
given was again that he WAS no Italian an I'M
pleasant argument for politicians, 20 employ
who make capital OF the cry OF Italia irreuen-
IN" After the fifth election the G~Oyernment
was able 10 prove bribery, and the Prince OF
CarOyigno was condemned tna fortnlghts In;
nIisonment and five years loss OF e~lectorai
rights, on which ground the Chamber turned
him out for the hfth time.
In spite of this he proposes 20 Keep up MS CAM
didacy, and counts on his Pietrasanta electors
backinR him up until he succeeds, AS they are
| likely 10 II his money holds out