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Camillo dei Principi Ruspoli (10 January 1882 – 5 September 1949), was the 2nd and last Principe di Candriano and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, son of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa, and second wife Laura Caracciolo dei Principi di Torella, Duchi di Lavello, Marchesi di Bella.

His maternal uncle, Giuseppe Caracciolo (1849 – 1920), Patrizio Napolitano, married twice and without issue, was the 1st Prince of Candriano (formerly Marquis of Candriano) (12 May 1893 – 1 October 1920).

Biography

Ruspoli belonged to the noble Roman and Florentine Ruspoli family. He was the sixth son of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa, a politician, and his second wife, Donna Laura Caracciolo dei Principi di Torella.

Chief of the Blackshirts of Cuba. In January 1920, Camillo arrived in Havana on the steamship Governor Cobb, from Key West. He bought a citrus farm in Ceballos, Ciego de Ávila, then belonging to the province of Camagüey. He established his residence on Avenida del Río Almendares, no. 8.

In 1920 Ruspoli was a Deputy to Congress, for the province of Avellino. He had been a member of the army as Captain of Engineers and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.

Regarding his position before Mussolini's Government, he stated to Diario de la Marina, on February 5, 1929:

“Every good Italian must honestly recognize that Benito Mussolini is the true savior of Italy. He, using healthy methods of nationalist reconstruction and harmonizing the old struggle between capital and labor, avoided the dissolution of the Kingdom that seemed inevitable due to the nefarious communist doctrines that were rapidly spreading in Italy.”

Camillo presided over the Italian Assistance Society that helped his countrymen living in Havana with economic difficulties, especially children.

On April 23, 1942, the Diario de la Marina reported in a brief note, and with distance:

"Arrest of an Italian prince in Cuba. The Italian prince Camilo Ruspoli has been arrested and imprisoned as a dangerous foreigner. The police accuse him of being one of the directors of fascism in America. He has lived for years in Cuba where he owns many properties. The prince has a collection of yachts that the police have seized."

On September 4, 1949, Ruspoli died at his Havana residence.

Marriage and child

In Rome, on 29 April 1905, he married Baronne Marie Marguerite Blanc (daughter of French Baron Albert Blanc and wife Natalia Terry y Dorticós) (Madrid, 7 May 1884 – 22 November 1961), by whom he had an only son:

• Don Emanuele Alberto dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome, 24 February 1906 – Paris, 31 August 1929), unmarried and without issue. Died from typhoid fever.

Notable published works

He composed the ballet fantasy Festival of the Gnomes (which was orchestrated, conducted and recorded by Les Baxter in 1951).

Ancestry

See also

• Ruspoli

References

1. 1st Prince of Candriano Archived 2011-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
2. The granting of prince of (I) Candriano title by the king Umberto I of Italy (1893) Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
3. I Caracciolo di Torella
4. Festival of the gnomes : the music of Prince Di Candriano.

External links

• Camillo Ruspoli on a genealogical site (incomplete).

• 1882 births
• 1949 deaths
• Nobility from Rome
• Ruspoli family