Word: ducale
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While the crowds waited, pushed for better positions, hissed at one another gutturally, as is the moda of the displeased Roman, in the Ducal Hall of the Vatican Pius XI donned his ceremonial vestments; prepared to set out accompanied by his religious and secular court, by Princes Orsini, Boncompagni, Massimo, Aldobrandini. On the way to St. Peter's there joined this group the Noble Guard, the Knights of the Cape and Sword, all the Cardinals in Rome, Patriarchs from the East, white-mitred abbots, purple-clad canons of St. Peter's, Swiss Guards, Palatine Guards, members of religious orders...
Meanwhile the Duchess* of York, busying herself less royally, set about to direct a score of thick-sinewed titans who swarmed into White Lodge, the pleasant ducal residence at Richmond Park. Under her watchful eye the defter titans packed costly gold and silver plate, shifted it into panting moving vans already piled with trunks and boxes and chugged away...
...Ducal Palace in Venice, one of the most famous buildings in that city, is to become the property of the municipality following a decision of the Cabinet. At present the building is the property of the Italian Government and the decision to cede it to Venice was made "in keeping with the ancient Character of the building and its place in the history of the Republic* and Venice...
Zita herself is of Italian blood, being a member of the Ducal House of Tuscany. The Florentine diamond, manuscripts from the Modena Library, and other objects were transported from Tuscany to Vienna in the 18th Century. It is on this ground that the Italian Government claims them...
...Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, on the painting by Tintoretto now being shown in the gallery. The picture, the subject of which is "Diana," comes close to the series of smaller mythological subjects, the best known of which form the decoration of one room in the Ducal Palace, Venice...