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Bankers, reading Count Corti's colorful record, will think of other mighty houses: Torlonias (Italy); Aguados (Spain); Fuggers (Germany); Morgans (U. S.). Scholars may recall the tablets found on the lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates telling of the Egibi firm, financiers B.C. Cosmopolitans will write notes of congratulation to living Rothschilds: Zoologist Lionel Walter, Bankers Anthony Gustay and Lionel Nathan, Soldier James A. (London); Physician-Yachtsman Henri (Paris).
The Author. Count Egon Caesar Corti, descendant of a noble Lombard house, a former officer in the Austrian cavalry, was the biographer of Leopold I of Belgium and Maximilian of Mexico. In his researches, the name of Rothschild recurred. Intrigued, he assembled more than 20,000 documents for use in this book, began preparations for a second volume.