Raimondo Franchetti
Encyclopedia
Baron Raimondo Franchetti has been the name of more than one Italian
Baron
, the most famous of whom lived from 1889 until his death in an airplane
crash in the Egypt
ian desert
in 1935.
alla Guerra d'Afric, (Aliberti, Reggio Emilia
, Italy).
Italian people
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Baron
Baron
Baron is a title of nobility. The word baron comes from Old French baron, itself from Old High German and Latin baro meaning " man, warrior"; it merged with cognate Old English beorn meaning "nobleman"...
, the most famous of whom lived from 1889 until his death in an airplane
Fixed-wing aircraft
A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift due to the vehicle's forward airspeed. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which wings rotate about a fixed mast and ornithopters in which lift is generated by flapping wings.A powered...
crash in the Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
ian desert
Desert
A desert is a landscape or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants. Most deserts have an average annual precipitation of less than...
in 1935.
Family
His grandfather, also Raimondo Franchetti, married Louise Sarah Rotschild into the Rothschild banking family.Reference
V.Isacchini,(2005) Il 10° parallelo - vita di Raimondo Franchetti da SalgariEmilio Salgari
Emilio Salgari was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction.For over a century, his novels were mandatory reading for generations of youth eager for exotic adventures. In Italy, his extensive body of work was more widely read than that of Dante. Today...
alla Guerra d'Afric, (Aliberti, Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia is an affluent city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants and is the main comune of the Province of Reggio Emilia....
, Italy).