Word: albani
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unauthorized intruders. "Extra Omnes!" cried a dozen masters of ceremonies-"Everybody out!" The heavy bronze door of San Damaso creaked shut. Six keys clicked in its locks, three on the inside turned by the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, three on the outside by Prince-Marshal Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere. The papal flag was hauled down, the silken banner of the Chigi family hoisted in its stead. The conclave of 62 Princes of the Church, immured in the Sistine Chapel to elect the 262nd Pope, had begun...
...evening. By then, corridors and chambers near the Sistine Chapel (where the balloting takes place) would be bricked up, so that the only access to the conclave would be one doorway. Over that entrance the head of Rome's noble Chigi family would stand guard-Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, hereditary Marshal of the Holy Roman Church. The Marshal would carry in a red velvet satchel two keys to the door, open it only after consultation with Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli within...
...great Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn might be considered excessively vain, for he painted 62 pictures of his own face.* Emanuele, Count Castelbarco Albani, Italian painter whose first one-man show in the U. S. opened last week in Manhattan's Marie Sterner Galleries, might be considered inordinately modest, for the only self-portrait in Count Castelbarco's exhibit portrays no part of the Count's body...
...Crusades, the Knights once were hospitalers, then warriors, later sovereigns of the Island of Malta. Today members must possess: nobility with 16 quarterings; Catholic faith; attainment of full legal age; integrity of character; social position. Elected by the Sovereign Council, the present Grand Master is Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani. U. S. Grand Master is Morgan Joseph O'Brien, onetime New York Supreme Court Justice...
...love and hope of gain." This Grand Master, 76th since the order was founded in the nth Century, will enjoy the status of a Prince and, as head of a sovereign order be entitled to send diplomatic representatives to foreign courts. The new Grand Master elected: Prince Ludovico Chigi-Albani della Rovere...