Word: frascati
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the Papal throne room filed 3,000 Frascati pilgrims in unaccustomed dress suits, black vests, white gloves. Each pilgrim grasped firmly by the neck a bottle of amber Frascati wine. One by one the 3,000 pilgrims filed past the Pope to receive a special apostolic blessing and then filed out. Left on long tables, 3,000 bottles stood against the wall...
Eager to emulate the Frascati pilgrims, other wine-growing districts of Italy planned gifts for the Vatican cellar. From the Alps 5,000 ex-service men had already brought a tun of Piedmont's ruddy Barolos. Sicilians promised 1,000 bottles of tawny Moscato. Tuscany pledged 1,000 of Chianti. Umbria planned a gift of pale Orvieto Secco, most delicate of Italian wines. On the slopes of Vesuvius, Neapolitans prepared 1,000 of Lacrima Christi, Tear of Christ, for Peter's Cellar...
Strikingly different from the nonchalance of Old Louis Lumière was the air of grave and pompous consequence with which King Vittorio Emmanuele of Italy and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini proceeded to inaugurate, at Frascati, near Rome, last week The International Institute of Educative Cinematography...
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...
...Harvard Italian Club: Second monthly dinner at Frascati's Restaurant, Boston...