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Fulco Ruffo di Calabria and Concita Borrelli

The head of the house and the journalist who gathered the family's memories with him in a book.

Fulco Ruffo di Calabria

Born in Buenos Aires in 1954

Fulco is the eldest son of Prince Fabrizio, who led the house from 1975 until his death in 2005. He bears the name of his grandfather, the First World War ace, and is the nephew of Queen Paola of Belgium, his father's sister.

He grew up in Turin, between the family homes in Rome and summers in Versilia, and worked abroad for many years, in Belgium and in Africa. An art expert, he organises exhibitions and cultural events.

Today he represents the house of Ruffo di Calabria.

Images and documents

  • An official reception.
  • Pencil portrait of a child, signed Oretta Rangoni Machiavelli, Rome 1958.
  • «Il principe Ruffo fa abiti con il teschio nero»: article on Fulco Ruffo di Calabria's clothing line inspired by the aviators of the Great War, presented at Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
  • «Squadriglia degli assi – Fulco Ruffo di Calabria».
  • Family photograph.
  • «Cani in posa. Dall'antichità ad oggi», Silvana Editoriale, La Venaria Reale.
  • «Percorsi d'arte. Dal collezionismo dei Ruffo all'evoluzione pittorica di Mino Delle Site», Grafite Edizioni.
  • Fabrizio Beniamino Ruffo di Calabria, prince and head of the Ruffo di Calabria family.
  • Elisabetta Vaciago, mother of Fulco Ruffo di Calabria.
  • Photograph in the desert.

Concita Borrelli

Journalist and author

A journalist and presenter for RAI, Italy's public broadcaster, Concita Borrelli trained as a lawyer and worked as a television writer. Fulco's wife, she gathered and wrote the family's memories together with him.

  • Concita Borrelli.

The book

Ricordo quasi tutto

Mondadori, 2016

Written by Fulco Ruffo di Calabria with Concita Borrelli, it is a story of a life and a family. It covers his childhood in Turin, the homes in Rome, summers in Versilia, his working years in Belgium and Africa, and his relationship with his father Fabrizio. In the background is the history of the Princes of Scilla and figures such as his aviator grandfather and his aunt the queen.

  • Cover of the book «Ricordo quasi tutto»