On January 29, 1873, Prince Luigi Amadeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francisco di Savoia-Aosta, better known as the Duke of Abruzzi, was born. The Italian Duke's interests were extensive.

They are Miss Elkins of Washington, who is to become the wife of the Duke of the Abruzzi, though the engagement has not been formally announced, and Miss Jean Reid, daughter of the American ...

The Duke of Abruzzi, who had carried out the grandiose conquest of Mount St. Elias in Alaska and had returned from an expedition to the Arctic, began to ponder about this challenge until, in 1906, he ...