New-York tribune., 1907-08-30
"SCIPIO ASIATICUS."
Prince Borghese To Be the Neso
Mayor of Rome.

-; azia-,c,s' the name by which Prince
..,;o t2orshese is known since his wonderful feat
= ni,nine the ten-thousand-Tliie motor race from
-,,i,, to Paris across the entire breadth Of Asia.
: "a he tire new Mayor Of Rome. The office OF
lie magistrate has been vacant for some time,
s,r 10 the difficulty Of finding a man who would
. ,,uaIlv agreeable 10 the Radicals. who are IN
,,,,a-4ral superiority in municipal matters and
= -,a extremely influential Clerical faction Both
orties are alive to the policy of having at the
.6 of tI7e Eternal City a great noble. thoroughly
,ualfhed By his name. wealth and rank to repre-
en- the metropolis in suitable manner in the
.v.s Of the outer world. and capable of doing the
,no-s IN the name of the italian capital TO royal
s,S imperial visitors. Duke Torlonia- brother Of
~, Asrino Torloria. who married Miss Elsie
Moore in Greenwich Conn. few weeks ago.
and the late Don Emmanuel Ruspoli Prince of
pocrio Suasa and husband Of Miss Josephine Cur
lis Of New York. have held the office Of Mayor
Of Rome, while its last occupant was Don Pros
nero Coonna. Prince of Sonnino. and younger
brother OF the head Of thu historic House of Co
lonna
Prince Scpio Borghese will be in every sense Of
the word admirably fitted for the post. He is in
politics Radical. and therefore IN sympathy with
the party which is at present IN the ascendant in
,runicipal matters Yet his nomination would not
alarm the Clericals. who know that his family has
furnished Pope 10 the Church in the person OF
Paul V. besides many cardinals. and that num-
her Of the members Of his family closely iden-
tihed with the court Of the Vatican
The prince is tall. clean shaven pink faced. very
quiet reserved and underaonst-ative in his man.
ner looks like a well bred American, and talks
English like one. He is equally at home in French
and German He the virtual head Of the his
foric Roman house Of Borshese, since his father,
Don Paolo has been for number OF years under
restraint lunafic. He AT one time men
toned as suitor for the hand OF the daughter
Of w X Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough
But the match did not materialize. and he mar
ried instead the heiress Of the Ferraris OF Genoa
whose enormous wealth comes 10 them from their
manufacture Of silk, and whose ducal title is Of
extremely modern creation.
The Borgheses, besides being Roman patricians
and Spanish grandees OF the first class like
wise members of the French nobility, possessing a
French dukedorn which conferred by the first
NapOleon in 1895 upon Prince Camille Borghese
vfo married Pauline Bonaparte, the most beauti-
ful Of all the sisters OF the French Emperor and
the model for Canova's famous statue OF Venus
The Borgheses allied by marriage 10 the Eng
lish noble house of Talbot, the ducal family Of
la Rochefoucauld in France TO the Belgian and
German cucal House OF Arenberg. TO the Hun
garian prfncely families OF Esterhazy HunyadI
and Apponyf, and TO the Spanish ducaI House of
Alba
Italians are all extremely proud Of the tour de
force" accomplished by Prince Scipio Borghese,
feat which has furnished a manifestation OF their
national pluck. endurance and resourcefulness to
the entire world, and the election OF ''Scipio Ash
sticus" 10 the post of Mayor OF the External City
will be extremely popular throughout the
length and breadth of the dominions Of King Vic
sor Emmanuel