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...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...
When debonair Count Guido Chigi-Saracini was a young music student in Florence, his teachers called him "the piano smasher." Often enough, when he came to a difficult passage, he could only bang his fists down on the keyboard in frustration and rage. After a try at composing, with little more success, he decided to take his music at one remove, pay for it rather than make it himself.' Today, after 40 years of footing bills, 70-year-old Count Chigi-Saracini has a good claim to the title of Italy's No. 1 music patron. The slim...
...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...
...Prince Umberto, Lieutenant General of the Realm, named him Premier to succeed Ferrucio Parri, De Gasperi was ill with influenza. At first, propped up in bed, sneezing and rheumy-eyed, he haggled with fellow politicians. Then, pale and weak, he left his bedchamber for day-&-night sessions in the Chigi Palace. Punctually at 7 each morning a neighbor's phonograph woke...