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Cesare Balbo says that, if the happiness of the masses consists in peace without industry, if the nobility's consists in titles without power, if princes are satisfied by acquiescence in their rule without real independence, without sovereignty, if literary men and artists are content to write, paint and build with the approbation of their contemporaries, but to the contempt of posterity, if a whole nation is happy in ease without dignity and the tranquil progress of corruption, then no period ever was so happy for Italy as the 140 years from the Peace of Cateau Cambrésis to the War of the Spanish Succession.
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Cesare Balbo ( 21 November 1789 – 1853 ), Count of Vinadio, was an Italian writer and statesman.
His father, Prospero Balbo, who belonged to a noble Piedmontese family, held a high position in the Sardinian court, and at the time of Cesare ’ s birth was mayor of the capital.
** E. Ricotti, Della Vita e degli Scritti di Cesare Balbo ( 1856 )
** A. Vismara, Bibliografia di Cesare Balbo ( Milan, 1882 )
* Cesare Balbo, The Life and Times of Dante Alighieri, Part I, Part II, translated by F. J. Bunbury, R. Bentley, 1852.
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Politically she leant towards Fascism — in October 1922 the quadrumvirs ( Emilio De Bono, Italo Balbo, Michele Bianchi and Cesare Maria de Vecchi ) visited her at Bordighera to pay their respects prior to the March on Rome.
Il Risorgimento (" The Resurgence " in English ) was a liberal, nationalist newspaper founded in Turin 15 December 1847 by Count Camillo Benso di Cavour and Cesare Balbo, who was a backbone of the " neo-Guelph " party that saw in future a rejuvenated Italy under a republican government with a papal presidency — ideas with which Cavour did not agree.
" The " Quadrumvirs " were Michele Bianchi ( age 39 ), Cesare Maria De Vecchi ( 38 ), Emilio De Bono ( 56 ), and Balbo.
Emilio De Bono, Benito Mussolini, Italo Balbo and Cesare Maria De Vecchi.
The quadrumvirs leading the Fascist Party, General Emilio De Bono, Italo Balbo ( one of the most famous ras ), Michele Bianchi and Cesare Maria de Vecchi, organized the March while the Duce stayed behind for most of the march, though he allowed pictures to be taken of him marching along with the Fascist marchers.
He was minister in the first Sardinian constitutional ministry under the presidency of Cesare Balbo, and afterwards president of the senate.
The literary movement that preceded and was contemporary with the political revolution of 1848 may be said to be represented by four writers-Giuseppe Giusti, Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi, Vincenzo Gioberti and Cesare Balbo.
Some of its leading lights were Vincenzo Gioberti and Cesare Balbo and in some ways ties in with the philosophy of Geobertism itself.
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Cesare and says
A twist ending reveals that Francis ' flashback, however, is actually his fantasy: he, Jane and Cesare are all in fact inmates of the insane asylum, and the man he says is Caligari is his asylum doctor, who, after this revelation of the source of his patient's delusion, says that now he will be able to cure Francis.
Cesare and if
He was, however, never personally involved in the many political scandals of the Bettino Craxi government era, even if Cesare Romiti, Agnelli's most trusted administrator for some 25 years, publicly admitted to bribery in 1994.
Cesare and peace
At the very time ( December 1516 ) that peace between France, Spain, Venice and the Empire seemed to give some promise of a Christendom united against the Turks, Leo was preparing an enterprise as unscrupulous as any of the exploits of Cesare Borgia.
Caterina repeatedly refused all offers of peace, from Cesare and from Cardinal Riario.
In 1500 Vitellozzo and the Orsini made peace with the pope, and the latter's son Cesare Borgia, being determined to crush the petty tyrants of Romagna and consolidate papal power in that province, took the condottieri into his service.
Cesare and without
Although he was an immensely capable general and statesman, Cesare would have trouble maintaining his domain without continued Papal patronage.
Confusion with his brother may account for the statement ( without evidence ) of his appointment by Charles V as secretary to the viceroy at Naples, Don Pedro de Toledo ; there is no proof of his holding any official position, though Curione ( in 1544 ) writes of him as " cavalliere di Cesare.
Although known mostly for his work under prosthetic makeup, such as the zombie Billy Butcherson in the Disney Halloween film Hocus Pocus, or the lead Spy Morlock in the 2002 remake of the 1960 film The Time Machine, he has also performed without prosthetics in such films as Adaptation, Mystery Men and Batman Returns, and indie projects such as Stefan Haves ' Stalled, AntiKaiser Productions ' Three Lives, Phil Donlon's A Series of Small Things and as Cesare in David Fisher's 2005 remake of the 1920 silent classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
* 2012 January 16 First ascent of Compressor Route without using any of Cesare Maestri's bolts except at the anchors, by Hayden Kennedy and Jason Kruk.
As time passed without decisive results, Cesare changed his tactics.
His first wife remarried in Vienna, on 21 November 1949, to Antonio Sozzani ( Milan, 12 July 1918 – Milan, 6 January 2007 ), son of Cesare Sozzani and wife Cristina Alemani, without issue.
Cesare is left without his only support and becomes more and more depressed.
Cesare and titles
The cardinal promised Cesare that he could keep all of his titles and honors.
Although Cesare managed to seize the remnants of the Papal treasury for his own use, he was unable to secure Rome itself, as French and Spanish armies converged on the city in an attempt to influence the Papal conclave ; the election of Pius III ( who soon died, to be replaced by Julius II ) stripped Cesare of his titles and relegated him to commanding a company of men-at-arms.
Cesare and power
When Cesare eventually took power, he was viewed by the citizens as a great improvement.
Although Cesare Borgia's father gave him the power to set up, Cesare ruled the Romagna with skill and tact for the most part.
Their design combines rich acanthus leaves, architectural framing, and mythological scenes ( inspired by Cesare Ripa's Iconologie ) with emblems of Louis XIV's royal power.
There was some thoughts that the Church was keen on coming to terms with Hitler as he represented a strong resistance against Communism: the Papal Nuncio in Berlin ( Cesare Osenigo ) is reported to have been “ jubilant ” about Hitler's rise to power and that the new government would soon be offering the same concessions to the Church that Mussolini thought necessary to do previously in Italy.
He appointed his son, Giovanni, as captain-general of the papal army, his foremost military representative, while establishing his eldest son, Cesare, as a power within the Church by naming him cardinal at the age of 18, and, not coincidentally, placing him in line as a future Pope.
Although Cesare had been a cardinal, he left the holy orders to gain power and take over the position Giovanni once held – Cesare became a condottiero.
When Mussolini firmly established his power in January 1925, he appointed Cesare Mori as the Prefect of Palermo in October 1925 and granted him special powers to fight the Mafia.
With the death of Pope Alexander VI on 18 August 1503, Cesare Borgia lost all his power.
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