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14 unusual facts about Rapallo


1922 in Germany

The extension of the Russo-German Treaty of Rapallo to the Soviet republics federated with Russia took place as a matter of course, and aroused no attention.

The German delegation became the object of unwelcome attention when it concluded a political and economic agreement with the Russian foreign minister Georgi Chicherin in Rapallo on Easter Sunday (April 16).

Desmond Chute

He died and was buried in Rapallo, although a memorial designed by Gill stands in Canford Cemetery, Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol.

Later Desmond moved for his health to Rapallo, Italy, where he was a close friend of Max Beerbohm and Ezra Pound, and one of the Tigullian Circle clique around him.

Elisabeth Jungmann

She immediately travelled out to his villa in Rapallo where she took care of the funeral arrangements.

Jungmann had been a friend of the Beerbohms since 1927 when she had translated at a meeting between Beerbohm and Hauptmann, who wintered in Rapallo in Italy.

Gabriela Mistral

Like many Latin American artists and intellectuals, Mistral served as a consul from 1932 until her death, working in Naples, Madrid, Lisbon, Nice, Petrópolis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Veracruz, Rapallo, and New York.

Gerald Frank Anderson

On 5 April 1971, Anderson's wife Lilian Madge died in Rapallo, Italy.

Jon Martin

“I Fauni” a group that took part in a competition held by the magazine "TV Sorrisi e Canzoni" in the city of Rapallo (Genoa) coming in second place.

Konrad Bleuler

The last one was the 19th Conference in 1990 held at Rapallo.

Rapallo

The influential theatre designer and artist Gordon Craig lived in the Villa Raggio, next door to Beerbohm, from 1917 to 1928.

Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that the ideas for Zarathustra first came to him while walking on two roads surrounding Rapallo, according to Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche in the introduction of Thomas Common's translation of Thus Spake Zarathustra.

Rapallo railway station

This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at December 2010.

Rossetti and His Circle

Beerbohm returned to England from his home in Rapallo in Italy so that he could study photographs of the subjects he depicted in his caricatures.


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