Word: celian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tell Them to Come." For many years he has lived in Rome, making his home in the convent of the Little Company of Mary, on Celian Hill, not far from the Coliseum. The streetcars clanging past his window disturb him not at all as he sits in his simple room, writing in a hand still firm. A Catholic living in a Catholic retreat, he calls his religion "a matter of sympathy and traditional allegiance, not of philosophy." Says he mischievously: "I believe I am the despair of the nuns here, who hope I'll become pious on my deathbed...
Since World War II cut off his royalties from the U.S., Santayana has lived in a convent run by the Little Company of Mary on Rome's Celian Hill. There he ran through the Sisters' library - first Dante and all of Shakespeare's plays, then the Gospels in the Douai version and the lives of the saints...