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- BIOGRAPHY
Vittorio Amadeo was born in Turin on 1 March 1690, the son of Emanuele Filiberto, prince de Carignano, and Maria Angela Caterina d'Este. His cousin Vittorio Amadeo II, king of Sardinia, arranged for him to marry Vittoria Francesca di Savoia, marchesa di Susa, the king's natural daughter with his mistress Jeanne Geneviève d'Albert, estranged wife of Joseph Ignace Scaglia, comte de Verua, and daughter of Louis Charles d'Albert, 2.duc de Luynes, and Anne de Rohan.
Vittorio Amadeo and Vittoria were married at Moncalieri Castle near Turin on 7 November 1714. They had two sons and a daughter, of whom Luigi Vittorio and Anna Teresa would have progeny.
Vittorio Amadeo also had two illegitimate children by Felicita Para and three by Marie Tanzault. Of these five children only a son Carlo Amadeo Filiberto di Savoia, Cavaliere di Racconighi (1731-1807) had descendants.
Vittorio Amadeo was an inveterate gambler. Heavily in debt, and sued by his sisters whose dowries he had gambled away, he fled to France where he lived such a luxurious life that his son was forced to sell the great fortune he owned in that country.
In July 1718 Vittorio Amadeo moved from Turin to the hôtel de Soissons in Paris, where he set about founding an Italian opera house with his own set designs, only one of the grand schemes for which Vittorio became notorious in Paris. He had engaged the best voices in Italy for the project, but sadly it folded within two months. It appears that Paris was not then ready for such an ambitious project. His family lived in Piedmont, between Turin and Racconigi, establishing relations with the greatest European families, such as the Borbone-Lamballe, the Rohan and the Lorena Armagnac in France, the Lobkowicz in Bohemia, and the Colonna and Doria Pamphili in Italy. Vittorio Amadeo died on 4 April 1741.
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1690 - 1741 (51 years)
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