Word: bacci
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...papacy have hardly grown lighter since the 13th century, and they were defined last week in solemn ceremony for the man who would leave the conclave as the 262nd Pontiff. At a Mass in St. Peter's before the cardinals retired into their sealed-off quarters, Monsignor Antonio Bacci, Secretary of Briefs to the Princes (an ancient office in the papal household), told them in finely chiseled Latin what sort of man they must choose...
...cardinals tug heavy silken cords to drop the baldachin that hangs over each chair, leaving only the new Pope's throne covered. As the cardinals line up to kiss the Pope's slipper, knee and cheek, he faces for the first time the responsibilities that Monsignor Bacci defined...
...Monsignor Bacci sees it, Latinitas is more than just a magazine. For Latin scholars everywhere, it should also be a call to arms. "It is our intention," he says in his statement of policy, "to rally . . the most excellent cultivators of a pure Latin style (latinitatis cultores optimos) so that they may contribute ... to its re-establishment and renewal." With the first issue of the magazine fresh off the press, readers can find out just what the most excellent cultivators...
Though Editor Bacci will consider for publication any subject except politics, his contributors are apparently not yet accustomed to such latitude. For their first appearance in print, most stuck close to familiar academic ground. One scholar wrote about the poetry of Catullus; another about the sorrows of St. Augustine's mother; still another about the various shades of purple in Virgil ("We must tell the cardinals!" exclaimed Pope Pius after reading the article). But in spite of such heavy fare, subscriptions were pouring in at the rate of about two dozen a day-including a daily five...
Eventually, Editor Bacci hopes to boost his circulation to about 3,500. But to do that, he knows that he must update his authors as well as his Latin. The big trouble, says he, is that those who know Latin best seem to know the modern world least. "We planned to include a report on a soccer match," sighs Editor Bacci. "But the author, a most brilliant Latin writer, found he did not know enough about soccer. The report will be published as soon as the author, who is now studying a manual on how to play soccer, acquires...