La California Posted on October 5, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press The name Belmont comes from Beaumont. Count Leonetto Cirprini named a province in Italy after California, the place he dwelt. He was the first Italian ambassador and fought the Habsburgs as a Forty-Eighter, who I suspect were going to colonize California. Was Belmont going to be the … Continue reading Cipriani and California In Sardinia