Carlo Dentice di Frasso
{{Short description|Italian nobleman and politician}}
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| name = Carlo Dentice
| honorific_suffix = Count of Frasso
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| caption = Count Dentice di Frasso{{cite web |last1=Service |first1=Bain News |title=Count Dentice Di Frasso |url=https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014717548/ |website=www.loc.gov |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=15 August 2024 |language=en |date=1900}}
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| office1 = Member of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1876|01|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = San Vito dei Normanni, Kingdom of Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|1946|02|27|1876|01|22|df=yes}}
| death_place = Carovigno, Italy
| parents = Ernesto Dentice di Frasso
Luisa Chotek von Chotkowa und Wognin
| spouse = {{marriage|Georgine Wilde
|23 April 1906|1921|reason=div}}
{{marriage|Dorothy Taylor Grahame-White
|29 June 1923|1945|reason=died}}
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Count Carlo Dentice di Frasso (22 January 1876 – 27 February 1945) was an Italian nobleman and politician.
Early life
Dentice di Frasso was born on 22 January 1876 in San Vito dei Normanni, Kingdom of Italy. He was a younger son of Senator Ernesto Dentice, 7th Prince of Frasso, and the former Countess Luisa Chotek von Chotkowa und Wognin (1840–1898). Among his siblings were Luigi Dentice di Frasso, 8th Prince of Frasso (who was also a Senator),{{cite book |title=Anales de la Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía I (1991) |date=1992 |publisher=Ediciones Hidalguia |isbn=978-84-600-8178-4 |page=265 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anales_de_la_Real_Academia_Matritense_de/N7qlifJlCJYC&pg=PA265 |access-date=15 August 2024 |language=es}} and Don Count Alfredo Dentice di Frasso.{{cite news |title=ITALIAN SENATOR KILLED; Count Alfredo Dentice di Frasso Victim of Airliner Crash |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/02/13/archives/italian-senator-killed-count-alfredo-dentice-di-frasso-victim-of.html?searchResultPosition=2 |access-date=15 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=13 February 1940}}
His paternal grandparents were Luigi Dentice, 6th Prince of Frasso and Donna Anna Maria Serra (a daughter of Maria Antonia Serra, 7th Princess of Gerace, Duchess of Terranova).{{cite book |title=Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels |date=1961 |publisher=C.A. Starke |page=528 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2V5mAAAAMAAJ |access-date=16 August 2024 |language=de}} Among his extended family were aunts Donna Ippolita Emanuela Dentice di Frasso (wife of the Bavarian diplomat Count Count Otto von Bray-Steinburg),{{cite book |title=Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels |date=1958 |publisher=C.A. Starke |page=256 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lllmAAAAMAAJ |access-date=16 August 2024 |language=de}} and Donna Maria Dentice di Frasso (wife of Ferdinando Capece Minutolo, 1st Marquis of Bugnano).{{cite book |last1=Detken |first1=E. |title=L'Araldo : almanacco nobiliare del napoletano |date=1901 |page=87 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/L_Araldo_almanacco_nobiliare_del_napolet/ULwTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA87 |access-date=16 August 2024 |language=it}}{{cite book |title=L' araldo: almanacco nobiliare del Napoletano. 1894 |date=1894 |page=58 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/L_araldo/XxDaVE3aQtkC&pg=PA58 |access-date=16 August 2024 |language=it}} His maternal grandparents were Count Wilhelm Chotek von Chotkowa und Wognin and Louise von Ugarte.{{cite book |title=Gothaischer Hof Kalender zum Nutzen und Vergnügen |date=1915 |publisher=Perthes |pages=319–320 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Gothaischer_Hof_Kalender_zum_Nutzen_und/avf4Xw4lTNkC&pg=PA319-IA1 |access-date=16 August 2024 |language=de}}
Career
Dentice served in the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy in 1921.{{cite book |title=Annuario ufficiale delle corse ad ostacoli e corse piane per cavalli da caccia |page=8 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Annuario_ufficiale_delle_corse_ad_ostaco/73I4gc_kApkC&pg=PR8 |access-date=16 August 2024 |language=it}} He was said to be a friend of Benito Mussolini.{{cite book |last1=Talbot |first1=Margaret |title=The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century |date=8 November 2012 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-1-101-59705-7 |page=212 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Entertainer/rtbW9oDRYiMC&pg=PT212 |access-date=16 August 2024 |language=en}}
=Villa Madama=
File:Il giardino di Villa Madama.jpg's loggia at Villa Madama]]
In 1925, the Count and his second wife acquired Villa Madama in Rome.{{cite book |last1=Kear |first1=Lynn |last2=Rossman |first2=John |title=Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career |date=12 February 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5499-0 |page=205 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Kay_Francis/QWRWZu2EsKAC&pg=PA205 |access-date=16 August 2024 |language=en}} The restored the villa, which had been built for the Prime Minister of Italy Cardinal Giulio de' Medici in 1518, and, eventually, leased it to the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, before it was purchased by Mussolini in 1941. Mussolini's monumental neo-Roman Foro Italico sports complex is next to the villa, on the site of its racetrack.{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=May Birkhead Wireless To the New York |title=DI FRASSOS RESTORE HISTORIC MANSION; Italian Count and His American Wife Make Show Place of Villa Madama. IS ON HILL NEAR ROME Americana Taking the Cure at Montecatini increase In Numbers Yearly. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/10/06/archives/di-frassos-restore-historic-mansion-italian-count-and-his-american.html?searchResultPosition=5 |access-date=15 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=6 October 1929}}
Personal life
On 23 April 1906, Count Carlo married American Georgine Wilde at the Brompton Oratory in London.{{cite news |title=MISS G.R. WILDE A COUNTESS.; Mrs. Henry Siegel's Daughter Married to Count de Frasso. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/04/24/archives/miss-gr-wilde-a-countess-mrs-henry-siegels-daughter-married-to.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=16 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=24 April 1906}} Georgine was a daughter of the late George M. Wilde and Marie ({{nee}} Vaughan) Wilde (who was then married to department store founder Henry Siegel).{{cite news |title=MRS. HENRY SIEGEL HOME.; Returns from Visit to Her Daughter, Countess Dentice di Frasso, in Rome. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/06/02/archives/mrs-henry-siegel-home-returns-from-visit-to-her-daughter-countess.html?searchResultPosition=6 |access-date=16 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=2 June 1909}} The marriage was annulled in Rome in March 1921 and she later married William Douglas Burt of Providence, Rhode Island.{{cite news |title=MRS. GEORGINE WILDE WED TO W.P. BURT; Bride Is Stepdaughter of Henry Siegel and Former Wife of Count Carlo D. di Frasso. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/01/08/archives/mrs-georgine-wilde-wed-to-wp-burt-bride-is-stepdaughter-of-henry.html?searchResultPosition=8 |access-date=16 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=8 January 1929}}
On 29 June 1923, 47 year-old Dentice married another American heiress, the 35 year-old Dorothy Caldwell ({{nee}} Taylor) Grahame-White at 280 Park Avenue in New York City (the home of Whitney Warren) in a wedding attended by Prince Gelasio Caetani, the Italian ambassador to the United States.{{cite news |title=MRS. TAYLOR WEDS COUNT DI FRASSO; Former Wife of Claude Grahame-White, British Aviator, Marries Italian Statesman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/06/30/archives/mrs-taylor-weds-count-di-frasso-former-wife-of-claude-grahamewhite.html?searchResultPosition=3 |access-date=15 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=30 June 1923}} The former wife of British aviator Claude Grahame-White, she was the daughter of Bertrand LeRoy Taylor and Nellie ({{nee}} Caldwell) Taylor.{{cite news |last1=Liu |first1=Ming |title=Bulgari's Clients Prove to Be the 'Treasures of Rome' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/style/jewelry-bulgari-rome.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=15 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=24 March 2018}} Her brother, Bertrand L. Taylor Jr., was a financier who served as chairman of the board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange.{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Wireless To the New York |title=GETS DIVORCE IN PARIS.; Mrs. B.L. Taylor Jr. Obtains Decree With Custody of Children. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1926/11/25/archives/gets-divorce-in-paris-mrs-bl-taylor-jr-obtains-decree-with-custody.html?searchResultPosition=6 |access-date=16 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=25 November 1926}}{{cite news |title=BERTRAND L. TAYLOR OF STOCK EXCHANGE |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/23/archives/burtrand-l-taylor-of-stock-exchange.html?searchResultPosition=9 |access-date=16 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=23 August 1972}}
The Count of Frasso died on 27 February 1945 in Carovigno. The Countess of Frasso died on 4 January 1954 while aboard a train.{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special to THE NEW YORK |title=Society Leader Found Dead on Train to Coast |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/01/05/archives/society-leader-found-dead-on-train-to-coast.html?searchResultPosition=14 |access-date=16 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=5 January 1954}}
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Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Kingdom of Italy)