Word: bacci
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most people, 67-year-old Monsignor Antonio Bacci of the Vatican might seem a lonely man. He admits that he is-sometimes. His title is Secretary of Briefs to Princes, but not even the princes to whom he writes always understand what he says. The language Monsignor Bacci uses officially is an elegant Ciceronian Latin, and few men, says he ("inter doctos quoque viros"), can read it with ease...
...last ten years Monsignor Bacci has been doing his best to revive and enliven the Latin of Cicero (106-43 B.C.). As editor of the Latin Dictionary of Modern Terms, he has translated hundreds of post-Ciceronian words and phrases, from newspaper reporter (diurnarius scriptor-daily writer), to spaghetti (pasta vermiculata-little worm-shaped dough) and "Tennis, anyone?" ("Ludere manubriato reticulo quisnam vult?"-"Is there someone who wants to play the game of the net with handle?"). Last week, Monsignor Bacci was embarked upon a new project: publication of the world's first international Latin quarterly...
...newest Pinocchio (Pinoculus this time) sold 6,000 copies in a month, and schoolmasters all over Italy were ordering more. Even the Vatican's top classicist, Monsignor Antonio Bacci, was plugging the book as something that Latin teachers have always neededan easy bridge between grammar and the classics. "Here," said Monsignor Bacci, "at last is something...