Word: girolamo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Florence, the city where Girolamo Savonarola preached in defiance of a Renaissance Pope, Alexander VI, has another rebel priest on its hands. In fact, the name of Don Enzo Mazzi, 41, has already become known all over Italy as a symbol of the clerical protest that has broken out even in Roman Catholicism's own backyard...
...knows for sure when he was born, or even when he died. Historians passed him by, and the only accounts he left of his own life are nagging reminders of the difficulty he had collecting payment for his paintings. One can perhaps forgive his age for slighting Girolamo Romanino. It was, after all, in love with Raphael, Leonardo, Titian and Michelangelo...
...said that when money talks even the angels listen. In Rome rumors of thefts, mismanagement and waste began to filter into the Vatican. In 1960, Girolamo Bortignon, Capuchin Bishop of Padua, began to complain to powerful friends in the Holy See that the activities in San Giovanni Rotondo would bear an investigation. Pope John sent an emissary, Msgr. Carlo Maccari, to the busy shrine with directions to set things in order. Maccari saw plenty that needed to be set in order. He saw the dread Spiritual Daughters squabbling over a cushion on which the padre had knelt, finally tearing...
...Doyle" of Stamford, Conn., as triggerman in three 1930 slayings, a Stamford businessman named Robert Doyle, who was twelve years old in 1930, began getting nasty phone calls. Next day, Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff protested, and Valachi remembered that his Bobby Doyle, an alias for Gangster Girolamo Santuccio, lived in Hartford. Chairman McClellan allowed that he was "awfully sorry" about the mistake, but a good many people thought that it was disgraceful for the Senate to permit Valachi to broadcast rumors and hearsay. Said Maine's Democratic Edmund Muskie, a committee member: "What a waste...