Camillo Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Candriano

Camillo dei Principi Ruspoli (10 January 1882 – 5 September 1949), was the 2nd and last Principe di Candriano and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, son of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa, and second wife Laura Caracciolo dei Principi di Torella, Duchi di Lavello, Marchesi di Bella.

His maternal uncle, Giuseppe Caracciolo (1849 – 1920), Patrizio Napolitano, married twice and without issue, was the 1st Prince of Candriano (formerly Marquis of Candriano) (12 May 1893 – 1 October 1920).

Biography Ruspoli belonged to the noble Roman and Florentine Ruspoli family. He was the sixth son of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa, a politician, and his second wife, Donna Laura Caracciolo dei Principi di Torella.

In January 1920, Camillo arrived in Havana on the steamship Governor Cobb, from Key West. He bought a citrus farm in Ceballos, Ciego de Ávila, then belonging to the province of Camagüey. He established his residence on Avenida del Río Almendares, no. 8.

In 1920 Ruspoli was a Deputy to Congress, for the province of Avellino. He had been a member of the army as Captain of Engineers and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.

Regarding his position before Mussolini's Government, he stated to Diario de la Marina, on February 5, 1929:“Every good Italian must honestly recognize that Benito Mussolini is the true savior of Italy. He, using healthy methods of nationalist reconstruction and harmonizing the old struggle between capital and labor, avoided the dissolution of the Kingdom that seemed inevitable due to the nefarious communist doctrines that were rapidly spreading in Italy.”Camillo presided over the Italian Assistance Society that helped his countrymen living in Havana with economic difficulties, especially children.

According to a 1938 intelligence report compiled by the U.S. War Department, Ruspoli was the leader of a Blackshirts organization in Cuba. Membership consisted of "600 men of Italian blood or sympathy".

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