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	COSTANTINO, COUNT NIGRA - LoveToKnow Article on COSTANTINO, COUNT NIGRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nigra was sent to Paris again to popularize a Franco-Piedmontese alliance, Nigra being, as Cavour said, the only person perhaps who knows all my thoughts, even the most secret.
		He was recalled from Paris when the occupation of the Marche and Umbria by the Piedmontese caused a breach in Franco-Italian relations, and was appointed secretary of state to the prince of Carignano, viceroy of the Neapolitan provinces.
		Nigra was a sound classical scholar, and published translations of many Greek and Latin poems with valuable comments; he was also a poet and the author of several works of folk-lore and popular poetry, of which the most important is his Canti popolari del Piemonte.
	16.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NI/NIGRA_COSTANTINO_COUNT.htm (348 words)

	Costantino, count Nigra
		Costantino, count Nigra (June 11, 1828 - July 1, 1907), Italian diplomatist, was born at Villa Castelnuovo, in the province of Turin.
		During the war of 1848 he interrupted his studies te serve as a volunteer against Austria, and was wounded at the battle of Rivoli.
		After the meeting at Plombires between Cavour and Napoleon III Nigra was sent to Paris again to popularize a Franco-Piedmontese alliance, Nigra being, as Cavour said, the only person perhaps who knows all my thoughts, even the most secret.
	brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/co/costantino__count_nigra.html (397 words)

	ACCADEMIA GRECO - AGESILAO GRECO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dukes, archdukes, court nobles, elegant, beautiful women, diplomats, dignitaries of the old school, generals and attachés of the embassies were invited to a grand hall glittering with gold.
		Italy was represented by the old Ambassador, Count Costantino Nigra, whom our Government had recently sent to Vienna, to see what he could do to save the fragile Triple Alliance.
		Costantino Nigra was a noted figure in the political world at the time: in Paris he had enjoyed the friendship of Napoleon III and was a confidant of Empress Eugenia.
	www.accademiagreco.it /ing/agesilao_ing.html (658 words)

	History
		The organic role of the academic pensions was not suppressed until 1935, although the holders of pensions were allowed to enjoy the pension for the rest of their natural lives.
		The first assembly of the Istituto Veneto was held on 1st March 1840; and Count Leonardo Manin was the first Chairman elected by sovereign resolution on 21 March.
		The number of honorary members was raised to twenty, and that of the active members to forty, twenty of whom received an annual pension.
	www.istitutoveneto.it /ivinglese/presentazione/storia.htm (1375 words)

	The Savoia Coalition
		Florence-born wife of Count Francesco Castiglione di Costigliole, a few decades her senior.
		To this end, Nigra can rely on a keen mind, and connections in circles both high and low.
		Nigra is a not unusual fixture in European society circles, where he tries to gather further support for the Coalition.
	www.fortunecity.com /tattooine/zenith/134/savoia2.htm (466 words)

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		Count Henri d'Ideville : "..Countess Castiglione is incredibly beautiful,this is true, but she has nature's and intelligence's superiority too..".
		Ambassador Costantino Nigra : "Golden Virginia, Venus of triple enchantments of Anadiomenes, Medicea, Callipigia".
		North-Peat: "Wonderful eyes of violet.."; Count Horace Viel-Castel: "...Arms and hands of a unique outline, she took with haughtiness her beauty's weight...".
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/10429/61983 (545 words)

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	www.jonathanselby.com /Nfam (4633 words)

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		Costantino Nigra, who knew Francis James Child's work, collected these ballads in XIX Century.
		Let her count out five-thousand pounds and gie her back her dearie."
		She's counted oot five-thousand pounds an' she's gotten agin' her dearie.
	www.mudcat.org /thread.cfm?threadid=29130 (3446 words)

	enbrit
		Three page entry with engraving for Helmuth Carl Bernhard Count von Moltke by H Spenser Wilkinson.
		Five page entry on Abyssinia with map engraving by Count Gleichen and Prof A H Keane and the Abyssinian Church by A J Butler.
		Page for Florence Nightingale with engraving, also Costantino Nigra.
	www.folder2.co.uk /enbrit1.htm (5715 words)

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