Principessa Maria Francesca di Savoia e Padre Benedetto Boano - Italia / Casa Savoia – Lotto di 2 lettere autografe storiche per i Principini in esilio (1945-1946) - 1945

Private archive lot consisting of two historic autograph letters directly tied to the four children of Umberto II of Savoy (Maria Pia, Vittorio Emanuele, Maria Gabriella and Maria Beatrice) in the delicate period between the end of World War II and the beginning of exile (1945–1946). Letter from Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy (signed "S.ª Maria Annunziata di Savoia"), dated Rome May 20, 1945 and addressed to the pedagogist Maria Antonietta Paolini, in which the exile in Switzerland at the side of the young princes is vividly recalled. Letter from Father Benedetto Boano of the Pia Society of St. Paul, dated Lisbon September 11, 1946, addressed directly to the "Augusti Principini" and accompanied by the official stamp of the Portuguese Paulist headquarters, concerning the shipment of the periodical "Il Giornalino". Documents of exceptional historical and collectible interest for scholars of the House of Savoy and the twentieth century.