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Principessa Mafalda / Princess Mafalda
Con una prosa agil y entretenida el autor narra la vida de Mafalda de Saboya hija del rey de Italia entrelazada con las primeras decadas del siglo XX y la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Y al ritmo de una novela de suspenso cuenta las vicisitudes que atraviesa para regresar a Italia en 1943 su captura y ultimos dias en el campo de concentracion de Buchenwald. Paralelamente narra la historia del paquebote Principessa Mafalda con todo el glamour que disfrutaba la primera clase sin olvidar a los que emigraban en tercera. Con realismo relata uno de los naufragios mas brutales del siglo los hombres lograban un lugar en los botes de salvamento a punetazos; las mujeres con sus hijos inmovilizadas por el panico no se arrojaron al mar para ser rescatadas; a muchos naufragos los devoraron los tiburones. Tambien se introduce al lector en los anos en que la sociedad portena viajaba a Europa en transatlanticos para hacer negocios divertirse concertar matrimonios y traer en sus bodegas el mobiliario y los materiales para construir y decorar sus lujosas residencias.
291 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2014
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March 7, 2023The SS Principessa Mafalda was an Italian transatlantic ocean liner built for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) company. Named after Princess Mafalda of Savoy, second daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III, the ship was completed and entered NGI's South American service between Genoa and Buenos Aires in 1909. Her sister ship SS Principessa Jolanda (1907) had sunk immediately upon launching on 22 September 1907.
On 25 October 1927, while off the coast of Brazil, a propeller shaft fractured and damaged the hull. The ship sank slowly in the presence of rescue vessels, but confusion and panic resulted in 314 fatalities out of the 1,252 passengers and crew on board the ship. The sinking resulted in the greatest loss of life in Italian shipping and the largest ever in the Southern Hemisphere in peacetime, with the ship that was called "the Italian Titanic".[1]
On 25 October 1927, while off the coast of Brazil, a propeller shaft fractured and damaged the hull. The ship sank slowly in the presence of rescue vessels, but confusion and panic resulted in 314 fatalities out of the 1,252 passengers and crew on board the ship. The sinking resulted in the greatest loss of life in Italian shipping and the largest ever in the Southern Hemisphere in peacetime, with the ship that was called "the Italian Titanic".[1]
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