The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-05
A PRINCESS NOVEL LIFE.

I among the persons who were mixed UP
| with the movement of the R.sorgiojoso.
| Christina Trivulzio of Belgiojoso takes a
| secondary but not unimportant place.
| She has lately been made the subject
of curious work by NJ. Raffaello Bar
biera. La Principessa Belgiojoso. suoi
| amici Bemici il sUo tempo" MILAN:
| Treves). The Princess Beigiojoso APP
peared in Paris for time like sort OF
| meteor. and she became acquainted with
all the celebrities of the day. Her life
| reads like a novel; may say, like the
widest of novels.
| She was born in Milan June % 1ScS, the
| daughter of the Marquis Giroiamo Trivul-
zlo and OF the Countess Gheradini. The
| Trivulzios are members of the greatest
Milanese nobility. and have played a
| part in the history of Italy since the
/ twelfth century. Among the curious
monuments of Milan is the tomb Of Tri-
vulzio who was made Marshal of France
and conquered northern Italy in the
name of Louis Kill Under the statue OF
/ the warrior are these words:
Qui nunduam quieyit Quiescit."
| They might have been written also on
I the tomb of Christina Belgiojoso. Her
| father threw himself into the Liberal
| movement which followed the French oc-
| cupation of Italy after the revolution. He
| became a chamberlain of Eugene Beau
L
| christina was educated in an atmosphere
| hostile to the Austrian rule. She was
! married at the age of sixteen to the
| trince Barbiano of Belgiojoso, who was
| twenty-four years old. The marriage was
| not happy, and in 1890 they separated am
| icably, without having recourse to judi
| cial proceedings. The young princess
| left for Switzerland. AS her husband
| was a Carbonaro, she was under the
eyes of the Austrian spies; she remem-
| bered that. by decree of 1S0S, all the
| Trivulzios had the right of citizenship
| in Switzerland, and obtained an official
! declaration which made her citizen CT
1Icino.
1t was at that time that Mazzini found
| ed a new sect. Young Italy, whose object
was to free Italy from the Austrian yoke.
| Among the associates of this secret So
ciety Were many members of the Italian
| aristocracy, especially in northern Italy.
Mazzini's enthusiasm inspired his fol-
| lowers with unbounded devotion. He was
| "a gentleman, a writer Of talent: he had
much eloquence and great power of
| organization. The Bergojosos. husband
ana wife, entered into the society, which
paved the way for Italia una. The prin-
cess lived successfully in Ticino and in
| France-at Antimes, Toulon, at Mar
seilles; in this last town she learned that
the Austrian government had sequestered
all her property She was ordered to re-
turn to Milan within three months. under
pain of being declared civilly dead and
of having all her property confisca ted.
Though her property was sequestered.
she found the means of giving 100000
A., francs toward the unfortunate plot d-
rected against Carlo Alberto whom MAJ
Zini accused of betraying the Italian
cause. Gallenga (who afterwards became
a correspondent of the London Tines
was to introduce himself in the palace
at Turin and to assassinate the king.
The plot was revealed; Gallenga and
MaZZini were condemned to death ad con-
tumaciam.
The princess lived for some time in
the island of Hyeres during a trial for
high treason. in which she was impli-
Gated along with her husband. She was
in bad health, but refused 10000 france
which her husband offered her, knowing
that he was himself in debt, and left for
Paris. the great ''refugium peccatorium- y
When she arrived there, in 1893, Paris
had become the principal center Of the
Italian emigration, which included Rossi,
who afterwards became French ambassa-
dor to Rome and Minister of Pho Mono.
and who was assassinated In Rome on
the 18th of November, 1S4s. Nicolo. Tom
masco, G.oberti. Count Mamiani, Sirtori,
Amari, Gen: Pope and Count Charles Pc
poll.
The princess says NJ. Barbiera, "ar-
rived in Paris without any noise and
took lodgings in one of the most out
lying quarters, in the upper story Of a
| house inhabited by poor people. She
painted fans as a means of revenue, say
ing that she had nothing to live on. as
the Austrian government had sequestered
all her property. l don't know if ii be
true that she put on her door card
with these words. The unhappy princess.
Perhaps the unhappy princess exagger-
ated her poverty In order to make the
Austrian government more odious. What
is certain is that she was not living in
affiuence.
a young man. of shorts stature, but
of great talent, soon as he saw the
very handsome Italian princess. was
seized with a violent passion. He was
the man who some time afterwards was
to direct the affairs of France. Adolphe
Theirs frequented much the house of the
princess. He used to go late into the
kitchen and cook the eggs for break
invited
She lived in a perfect whirlwind in
legion-Chopin. List. Thalberg, Dohler.
Mario and the Crisis, Meyerbeer. Della
croix Victor Hugo. Alexander Dumas.
Paris: the number of her admirers was
BelZac. etc. A reconciliation took place
between Princess Belgiojos0 and her hus-
band; who for time lived on the ground
floor of her hotel; but it did not last
long. One morning. the Duchess OF Pa
cenza ran away from Paris with the
prince. They went 10 Italy. where they
remained for eight years in a villa or
Lake Como In lsi5 the princess founded
a newspaper. the Gazetta Italiana. in
defence of the Italian cause She was
allowed to live in Milan. and afterwards
on ore of her estates. where she was alb
sorbed for time in agricultural pur-
suits At the time OF the revolution OF
1875 she was in Naples. She formed
battalion of Neapolitan volunteers whom
| she herself conducted TO Milan Her
"ciovanetti napolitani' joined the Pied
! montese army. but never say the enemy.
She WIS herself not satisfied with the
/ Piedmontes government and revisited
! Paris but returned TO Italy when the
republic was proclaimed in Rome, re-
newed there her acquaintance with MAJ
zani. and conducted an active propaganda
| for him and the shoft-lived Roman re-
public. After the recapitrlation OF Rome.
! she led wandering existence IN the
Holy Land in Asiatic Turkey she
, po,,aht land in Aanatolia. and led a pure
! IL oriental r.e. often under the tent
She tired Of this after while. and re-
| turned TO Turin. where she founded
raper. LItaiia (still In existence N
/ Rous,. and wrote many interesting aru-
1 Los for the Revue des peux Mondes on
! the east and italian Unity She re-
/ tired In The end. TO Bievio. on Lake Coz
/ no. and ended her agstatsd life almost
! FORGOTTEN. on the sth OF July. I'll
Encouraged.
New York Sum
John. 7 don't believe ours Is true
/ ieve she ported.
He Kissed her q few more Why rot:
h. occurred. as he paused for breath.