 The former minister died in his adoptive Florence, without completing work on his final volume, a diplomatic history of Romania.In addition to receiving the Olympic Cross and the Order of Saint George knighthood, he had been a Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania, a Grand Cross of the Order For Merit, an Officer of the Order of the Crown, a Commander of the Order of the Cross of Marie; a Grand Cross of the "Pour le Mérite", the German Eagle, the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, the Order of George I, the Order of the Crown of Italy, and the Order of the Yugoslav Crown; as well as Commander of the Order of the Redeemer and the "Polonia Restituta", an Officer of the Oak Crown, a Knight of the "Ordre des Palmes Académiques" and the House Order of Hohenzollern, and a recipient of Benemerenti medal.He was survived by daughter Elsa-Irène, known after marriage as Irene Bie, who lived in Maryhill, Washington and donated her collection of Romanian paintings to the local art gallery, named after her father; and by daughter-in-law Angela Comnène.