Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

I've been everything from a human cannonball to a stage manager, to a clown. It's a different show every year, so circus followers expect us to top last year's performance every time we hit town. And we never disappoint.

No matter how the wind howls. The mountain cannot bow to it.

Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor.

Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.