Word: federigo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defraud collectors, but Mr. Laurie shows how science defeats them -- even the ancient dodge of mutilation, in order to give the impression of age. He is a good raconteur, obviously full of the delights connected with his profession, and he tells many an interesting story about forgers like Icilio Federigo Ioni of Sienna, who fumed when an expert refused to look at a genuine picture which Ioni brought him--such had Ioni's reputation become. In a rage Ioni shouted: "When I bring him forgeries he buys them as genuine, and when I bring him genuine pictures he calls them...
Rupture? In Madrid last week Monsignor Federigo Tedeschini, the Papal Nuncio, was reported to be urging Pope Pius XI not to break openly with the Spanish Republic or pronounce such charges of "unheard of persecution" as His Holiness pronounced recently against the Mexican Republic (TIME, Oct. 10). "The Nuncio . . . feels," cabled Correspondent Frank L. Kluckhohn of the New York Times, "that permitting some kind of worship is better than the church being expelled entirely. ... 'A field abandoned is a field lost' is said to be his view. . . . He feels that a rupture between Spain and the Vatican would...