Word: canossa
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...charging the Germans with the responsibility for Hitler's crimes . . . No one demands a beating of the breasts or a scene at Canossa.* But what I do expect is an end to the arguments of those Germans who would not only deny their own guilt, but also seek to place the responsibility for the consequences of that guilt exclusively upon the shortcomings of other peoples ... I want you to know that such utterances . . . call to mind what people are now disposed to forget, that is, the amazing docility and acquiescence of the greater part of the German population toward...
Again the church and state are found in keen opposition. First in the Middle Ages one remembers King Henry, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, on his knees before the head of the Catholic church at Canossa beseeching him for peace. Then in Italy one pictures his holiness retiring into the Vatican forever before the victorious forces of the temporal lord. Now again in Italy again the head of the greatest Christian church is opposed by the state, this time in the person of the most powerful ruler that Italy ever...
...perfectly useless for a present-day Pope to act like a Pope of the earlier days and expect a second Canossa" (i. e. expect that George V will do penance before Pope Pius XI as Roman Emperor Henry IV did penance before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa, Italy...
...Living Mask. Another Pirandello play has come to baffle wit and start psychopathic conversation. The play was originally named Henry IV, because the hero?an embittered contemporary Italian?is discovered at a masquerade carnival in the guise of Emperor Henry IV (the one who went to Canossa barefoot in the snow to ask the Pope's pardon). The masquerading Italian is pitched off his horse onto a stone, and when he wakes up believes himself to be the actual Henry...
...Imperial party gained the day at Canossa...