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Died. Prince Mofeo Barberini Colonna di Sciarra, 74, member of an old Roman family; in Frascati, Italy, of heart disease. He was the founder of the Tribuna, Roman newspaper. For many years, he was forced to live abroad for having sold art treasures outside Italy, which is against...
Married: Deputy Finzi, Italian Under Secretary of the Interior, and Signorina Clementi, neice of Cardinal Vamrutelli, dean of the Sacred College, Rome. The witnesses were Premier Mussolini, Gulielmo Marconi, the inventor, and Prince Colonna. Gabriele d'Annunzio was also to have been a witness but failed to arrive in time...
...Fogg Art Museum has again received from an anonymous lender in New York an important 15th century oil and tempera painting, attributed by Bernhard Berenson '87 to Pietro Dei France chi, called Piero Della Frances. The picture comes from the collection of the Colonna family in Rome, and was formerly in that of the Doria family in Milan. It is now exhibited at the Museum for the second time...
...Fogg Art Museum has just received from an anonymous lender in New York an important fifteenth century oil and tempera painting, "A Crucifixion," attributed by Mr. Bernhard Berensen to the great Umbrian painter, Pietro Dei Franceschi, called Piero Della Francesca. The picture comes from the collection of the Colonna family in Rome, and was formerly in that of the Doria family in Milan...
...Library has purchased a collection of photographs of the sculptures on the Marcus Aurelius Antoninus column in Rome. The collection is called "Ble Marous-Saule auf Piazza Colonna in Rom." Another recent purchase is a miscellaneous collection of leaflets and pamphlets belonging to Sir Thomas Phillips, issued by the Middle Hill Press in England. The collection relates to matters of interest from a historical and antiquarian point of view. The correspondence of Sir Frederic Madden, relating to his edition of the old English poem, "Havelock, the Dane," has also been purchased...