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Under the leadership of Dr. Otto Gogan formerly of Vienna, Rudolph Erbsloch, banker: Otto Spengler, representing German authors in America; Professor A. Busse and Professor Camillo von Kienze, former Harvard men, an organization was formed last year on the accasion of Professor Kuno Francke's seventieth birthday to commemorate the service this founder of the Germanic Museum tendered to the cause of German...
...chiefest art treasure-house in Rome. He may have reflected that Napoleon, to whom he is so often compared, placed his sister, the beautiful Pauline Bonaparte, in that Villa. She is there still- reclining in marble on a marble couch, as Venus, whom she much resembled. Her husband, Camillo Filippo Ludovico, Prince Borghese, was paid another great compliment by Napoleon. The Corsican, with characteristic economy, left his beautiful sister at Rome, but caused the most valuable pieces in the Borghese' collection to be conveyed to Paris. They have never been returned. Strolling about the Louvre, one notes that...
...original stealing was done by Napoleon, however. The Borghese from Pope Paul V (Camillo Borghese, 1550) down, stole not a few trifles themselves. They also purchased with the generosity of gods. Their depleted collection still ranks among the finest in the world...
...that fatigue had carved in his sombre face, struck up "Maryland, My Maryland." The chords strode across a half-empty Armory, coming faintly to the ears of a far younger musician, who sat in a chair thickly padded with blankets and thumped dully at another keyboard. These two-Professor Camillo Baucia, "champion marathon pianist of Europe," and B. G. Burt of Jamestown, N. Y., U. S. champion-had been playing continuously for over 52 hours. They had played all the tunes they knew; the pianos were going flat; only 500 people remained in the hall; still they played...
...Camillo Castiglioni, "Austrian Stinnes," went bankrupt. A few years ago he was a comparatively poor man, but through the depreciation of the crown he amassed a fortune reckoned in tens of millions of dollars...