197 Order of the German Eagle: Grand Cross with Swords awarded to Enrico Caviglia, Marshal of Italy.
Silver and enameled. Without sash. In the eyelet the silver stamp "900". Gilding largely worn, but the enamel completely intact and undamaged.
Enrico Caviglia (* May 4, 1862 in Finale Ligure; † March 22, 1945 ibid.) Caviglia completed officer training at the Military Academy in Turin. In 1883 he was promoted to sub-lieutenant and then served with various artillery units. From 1904 to 1911 he was Italian military attaché in Tokyo and Beijing. He participated in the Eritrean War (1886-1889), the Battle of Adua (1896) in the Italian-Ethiopian War, and the Italian-Turkish War (1912). At the outbreak of World War I, Caviglia became a brigadier general and commanded the infantry brigade "Bari" on the lower Isonzo. In 1917, as a lieutenant general, he distinguished himself in the eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, advancing with his subordinate troops to the plateau of Heiligengeist-Bainsizza, northeast of Gorizia. In the Battle of Vittorio Veneto he commanded the 8th Italian Army, which ultimately decided the battle at the end of October 1918. Immediately after the end of the war, the British King decorated him with the Order of the Bath. In Italy, he became a senator on February 22, 1919, and Minister of War in the Orlando government. He solved the Fiume problem created by Gabriele d'Annunzio. On June 25, 1926, he received the rank of Marshal of Italy from the Fascist regime for his services in the First World War. Caviglia lived in relative seclusion in the years that followed because of his dislike of fascism. After the armistice of September 8, 1943, he took command of Rome and, in negotiations with Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, obtained "open city" status for the Italian capital. Shortly thereafter, Caviglia died in his hometown of Finale Ligure. His burial place is in the Mausoleo di Enrico Caviglia on Capo San Donato, Finale Ligure.
With this interesting provenance of a Marshal of Italy of the greatest rarity.