.... The government launched a powerful campaign to play down the significance of the Congo reports, a campaign whose outcome remained in doubt for nearly a year. With Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza involved, the scandal would be hard to contain. Brazza had long been portrayed as a martyr, working selflessly...

..., as in Friuli for the warlords Antonio and Girolamo Savorgnan during uprisings and factional battles in 1510–11, which continued as late as 1516; ⁵⁹ and chants of ‘Valperga, Valperga’, for the Savoyard captain misier Zorzi da Valperga, reported in February 1497, when four-fifths of the men and ‘part...

... the marriage, but he is required to return to the Palazzo Ducale the same evening. With this unpropitious beginning, the newly united families adapt to a succession of challenges as Giulia’s father Gian Matteo works behind the scenes for a revision of Girolamo’s sentence. The hunt for Tristan Savorgnan and his...

...Map 2. Brazza’s exploration of the Congo, 1877–82. Figure 1. Congolese women bowing before Brazza (L’Illustration, 8 July 1882). Figure 2. Savorgnan de Brazza. Engraving after a photograph by Nadar (L’Illustration, 25 November 1882). Figure 4. Brazza...

...). Figure 26. The Brazza Mausoleum, Brazzaville (New York Times, 30 November 2006). Henry Morton Stanley, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Charles Gordon, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, and Hubert Lyautey—five men who became charismatic heroes and exemplars of empire—resonated in their countries...

... to Crete for ten years for engaging in a sword fight with a Savorgnan contingent in Padua, killing two and wounding others. On the eve of Girolamo’s departure, his brother Alvise II and brother-in-law Giambattista Colloredo are assassinated on the Grand Canal by Tristan Savorgnan, seeking to avenge...

..., Crollalanza 1875 ; Custoza 2003 ; http://www.genmarenostrum.com/pagine-lettere/letterac/Colloredo/COLLOREDO1.htm . 18. Muir 1993, 251; Conzato 2005 , 59 n81; ASVe, CCX, Lettere di Condottieri, b. 308 (Filza Savorgnan). See also Walker 1998 . 19. Muir 1993, 251–2. 20. Ibid.; ASUd...

...Jean-Baptiste Marchand and four other men rank among those who figured most prominently in France and Britain's unprecedented race for Africa between 1870 and 1914. These “heroes of empire” included Charles (Chinese) Gordon, Henry Morton Stanley, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, and Hubert Lyautey...

... by Antonio Savorgnan. Alvise I Della Torre and several dozen Strumieri nobles are massacred by Savorgnan partisans in Udine during the Cruel Carnival of 1511. Castles are sacked and palaces burned to the ground. These include the Della Torre castle at Villalta and family palace in Udine. Savorgnan...

...During the decades of empire (1870–1914), legendary heroes and their astonishing deeds of conquest gave imperialism a recognizable human face. Henry Morton Stanley, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Charles Gordon, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, and Hubert Lyautey all braved almost unimaginable dangers among...