THE FRAMEWORK OF THE BEAUTIFUL ROSINA – Angela Battaglia

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Note: prima pubblicazione: 17 March 2011 the newspaper Communication and shapes to the site www.formedicomunicazione.com

– It is republished on the website comunicazioneeforme.com 15 June 2013

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 "They say it's the beautiful Rosina; the morganatic wife of the King ", his debut vendor flea various.

Then, three decades ago, I was too young to deepen, I, I already had too many commitments: study, teach, write…,

but I bought the same that picture, fascinated as I was in front of the Past objects, and, usual, just caught, I spent a part of my monthly salary as a teacher in some antique furniture or antique furnishings that attracted me, with the aim of making the most beautiful my marital home. But until you get to the point, encouraged by disapproving looks of the inhabitants of the house, It must be free, segregando in cantina, or relegating closed windows, excesses.

Today, 17 March 2011, Sesquicentennial anniversary of the Unification of Italy, going to visit, the "excesses" I rediscover "Rosina”

And, enticed by the discovery, for news catapult me ​​into hours of browsing on the Internet. Through different sites, including wikipedia, I summarize only some sections.

"La Bella Rosina", the young Rosa Teresa Vercellana, from what has been learned during the clicked links escursus, in 1848 He began his love affair induced by Vittorio Emanuele II, who was married for six years with his cousin Maria Adelaide, with which, During their double bond had eight children. The last child was born in 1855, the same year that he died, Maria Adelaide of Austria, Mother, titled Queen of Sardinia, mother of eight children and first wife of Vittorio Emanuele II,

The morganatic marriage, with which not the privileges of her husband to his wife are transferred, between the first King of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II and Rosa Teresa Vercellana, Countess of Mirafiori and cold Fontana, that the king had already had two children, It is celebrated on 7 November 1869; Coe, the second wife of Vittorio Emanuele II, proclaimed King of Italy in 1861, take place after 14 years of her widowhood.

who, should stop, in the knowledge that the historical dates to place "Rosina” fatigue, may return or not to return, so many and such is the news. While, divorced from the accounts and included in the unwritten lines, the feelings of men remain guarded and women who have made their personal history and history of Italy.

Angela Battle