Word: bentivoglio
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...hope.") But when repayment is overdue, Geremia has no heart at all. He strips one young couple of every piece of their jewelry, plus a coffeemaker, and if the debtors try to avoid him, Geremia sends out his enforcer, a sad-eyed cowboy named Gino (Bill Murray lookalike Fabrizio Bentivoglio...
...department is seeking $37 million in new federal funding for initiatives that include training officers to combat Internet crime, developing 10 regional computer forensic labs, hiring experienced cyberinvestigators and prosecuting child pornographers. "We have a limited pool of expertise and resources that we need to expand," says John Bentivoglio, associate deputy attorney general...
Banker Dreyfus not only collected the works of great artists, he tried whenever possible to have those works the portraits of great Renaissance characters. There is Philip the Handsome of Spain; Princess Beatrice of Aragon; the Princess Medea, daughter of that great swashbuckler and Bergamese Bravo, Bartolommeo Colleoni; Giovanni Bentivoglio, tyrant of Bologna, and the dashing Guiliano dei Medici, murdered in church by the Pazzi...
...19th century had slipped by when, one day in Italy, a daughter was born to a man who later became Governor of Rome. At 16 she was described as "a beautiful young girl, high spirited, with the daring recklessness of a lad." She was called the Countess Annette Bentivoglio. At 26 she put away the world, entered the Poor Clare Convent in San Lorenzo. Thereafter she was known as "Mother Mary Magdalene." In time she journeyed to the U. S., founded a convent in Omaha, and one in Evansville...
...smaller canvasses by Claude, now in the Fogg Museum, are among the earliest dated examples of the master; are, in fact, the pair owned by Cardinal Bentivoglio, which subsequently came into the possession of the king of Naples. The student of Claude will welcome the rare chance of comparing these early landscapes with that in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, painted at the very end of the artist's career...