Francesco Canero Medici
Francesco Canero Medici (1 June 1886 – 19 May 1946) was an Italian colonial official who worked with notable leaders of his time, including Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, and Italo Balbo. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to Raffaele Gaetano Canero Medici and Rosina Tramontano.
He married Anna Amalia Ludovica Ullman in 1922, and they had two sons. After Anna’s death in 1929, he married Eileen Alison Coutts in 1936.
Medici served as Governor of Addis Ababa from 23 September 1938 to 1 January 1939, and then as prefect of Tripoli from 1939 to 1941. Francesco and Eileen divorced in 1943 in Florence.
Medici died near Rome in 1946. Eileen died in Oxfordshire, England, on 5 April 1987.
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