Contemplating a dynasty in decline
Fiorino Pera di Novello in his study contemplates the portrait of Duca Emanuele Filiberto, Testa di Ferro. Emanuele Filiberto re-founded the city of Torino and the Duchy of Savoy after 30 years of French and Imperial occupation in 1562. Now his descendent Vittorio Amedeo III was dying of a broken heart in the fortress of Moncalieri following the invasion of the French revolution (SL time 10 May 2009).