Scipione Borghese (prince)

Infobox Person
name = Scipione Borghese


caption = Borghese (left) and Barzini (right) in the Peking to Paris race.
birth_date = 1871
birth_place = Migliarino
death_date = 1927
death_place = Florence
other_names =
known_for = Winning 1907 Peking to Paris race
occupation = Adventurer, politician
nationality = Italian

Prince Luigi Marcantonio Francesco Rodolfo Scipione Borghese, commonly known as Scipione Borghese (1871, Migliarino - 1927, Florence) was an Italian industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain climber and racing driver.

He is best known for participating in (and winning) the Peking to Paris race in 1907, accompanied by the journalist Luigi Barzini, Sr.. Nevertheless, before 1907, he had already become known internationally as a traveller, explorer, diplomat and mountain climber. In 1900 he had finished a journey in Asia from the Persian Gulf to the Pacific Ocean, publishing his experiences in the book "In Asia: Siria, Eufrate, Babilonia" (In Asia: Syria, Euphrates, Babylon) in 1902, which proved a success. Subsequently he also completed a journey across China, recounted in another book.

Tall and abstemious, he was a man of little words, cold, with calm and measured manners, and with great self-control. He was a deputy of the Partito Radicale in the Italian parliament of 1904 to 1913, fought bravely in the First World War, and began important improvement works in the "Agro Romano".

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*"This page is a translation of its Italian counterpart."

Persondata
NAME=Borghese, Scipione
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Adventurer, politician
DATE OF BIRTH=1871
PLACE OF BIRTH=Migliarino
DATE OF DEATH= 1927
PLACE OF DEATH= Florence