Word: chigi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parnassus in the Vatican. Agostino Chigi, the Rockefeller to 16th century Rome, was a firm believer in astrology (a pagan holdover), yet pious too. The meaning of the decorations he ordered for his burial chapel in Rome's Church of Santa Maria del Popolo is obviously that the lives of men are subject to the planets, which are in turn subject to God. Raphael, who painted the pagan divinity Galatea for Chigi's palace, also made the Vatican shine with Christian and pagan subjects, depicting the company of the saints and a synod of ancient sages opposite...
...Premier's words were more than diplomatic bluff. All week at the Palazzo Chigi, the Foreign Ministry, government officials were predicting dolefully that Pella might face ouster when Parliament reconvenes later this month unless he can produce promise of progress on Trieste, the most emotional issue in Italy. Already, Pietro Nenni's Red Socialists, yearning for a chance to swerve Italy from the West to neutralism, were baying that Pella's pro-U.S. policy is a failure and that Italy should dump him and change course...
...appointment of an investigating tribunal is the result of Vatican dissatisfaction with the laxity of the knights' control of their finances in recent years, and the knights' insistence on their autonomy in religious affairs. When the last grand master, Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani Delia Rovere, died last fall at 85, after a reign of 20 years (TIME, Nov. 26), it seemed to Rome like a good time to bring the knights' rights and privileges up to date and into line. The cardinals on the tribunal are well acquainted with their subject: all of them are also members...
Died. Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, 85, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, hereditary "Marshal of the Conclave" at which Popes are elected, dabbler in science (he was an expert on marine worms); of angina pectoris; in Rome...
...count's favorite project is his 28-year-old Chigi Musical Academy, a summer school designed to give young musicians the finishing touches they need before they make their concert debuts. To staff his academy, the count hires some of Europe's finest teachers, turns over to them 27 of the Palazzo Chigi-Saracini's 80 rooms. This summer, some 250 youngsters from 30 countries are playing, singing and waving batons in the palazzo's luxurious galleries and chambers. By month's end, the 70 most talented of them will have started an intensive...