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...current Prince Orsini is 37-year-old Filippo Napoleone, who replenished the declining fortunes of his house by marrying Franca Bonacossi, a provincial sugar-beet heiress from Padua. Franca, a woman of ambitious piety, filled her home with cardinals, bishops, monsignors and assorted clergy, urged that her husband be appointed Prince Assistant to the Pope in place of his father (who had been disqualified when he married a U.S. divorcee). She succeeded. But stocky, handsome Filippo Napoleone was bored by cardinals as dinner guests. He preferred to drink cocktails and talk to pretty girls in nightclubs. He never went home...
...Vatican's official Osservatore Romano answered back, but not exactly wholeheartedly, with an article by the Rev. Filippo Robotti: "Boxing is not something to be exalted or encouraged by Catholics . . . But it is not considered immoral and, in consequence, can at least be tolerated. Should boxing matches be gravely immoral, all promoters, boxers, managers and spectators would be in mortal sin. However, the great world champion, Gene Tunney, was chosen by ecclesiastical authorities president...
Profit-Sharing. In St. Louis, charged with passing four counterfeit $10 bills in the pay envelopes of his employees, Cafe Owner George de Filippo explained that he had found them in his cash register, knew they were phony but saw no reason why he should be stuck with them...
Italy, of course, has the world's foremost Botticelli experts. When the big news was flashed to Florence, it drew a dry laugh from the city's superintendent of fine arts, Filippo Rossi. "The picture," said Rossi flatly, "is catalogued here as a copy by an unknown student...
Michelangelo's Conversion of St. Paul, in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel, had always troubled a Vatican official named Filippo Magi. The composition is dominated not by the prostrate St. Paul but by his horse, which Magi described as having "an expressionless and towering head similar to that of a mule." And curiously, the horse was bridled, though Michelangelo made a habit of painting horses without bridles. Last summer Magi persuaded a Vatican colleague, Professor Deoclecio Redig de Campos, that the strange beast might be the result of overpainting by some unknown bungler. De Campos took an infra...