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Tommaso Alberto Vittore Genoa, duke of, an Italian prince, born Feb. 6,1854. He is the son of Victor Emanuel's late brother Ferdinand, and of a Saxon princess, the duchess of Genoa (privately remarried in 1856 to her former secretary, Marquis Rapallo). He was educated at Dr. Arnold's school in England, and was brought forward in 1870 as a candidate for the throne of Spain, but his name was withdrawn at the request of Victor Emanuel. He is an officer of the Italian navy, and visited China and Japan in 1873, and the United States in 1874.
 
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