Word: banfi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eats his second meal prepared by German Servite lay friars, who recently have displaced his old Milanese housekeeper, Linda Banfi, only woman in centuries to have lived in the Vatican proper. She is pensioned now. At this meal, which is light, he likes a helping of rice boiled according to the recipe of Milan cooks; and occasionally a cutlet. He percolates his own coffee and drinks it black. While he lunches thus, prelates on their knees read him his correspondence and extracts from Italian and foreign newspapers. After luncheon he goes to his private apartments for a brief...
...None but men." Such is the rule concerning the servants of the Pope's household. But in 1886 one Teodolinda Banfi became housekeeper for Pope Leo XIII, remained under Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XL Retired last week by age (65*), placed in a steam-heated modern apartment across from the Vatican, she wept with loneliness, refused luxury in Milan, saying, "He may need my services again." Opportunism. The past week produced loud Episcopal dissent from the Roman Catholic satisfaction over its annulment of the marriage of the Duke of Marlborough to Consuelo Vanderbilt (TIME, Nov. 22). Up spoke...