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...lumped with leprosy and other skin troubles, was given no special recognition. In 1493 a great plague of syphilis spread out of Naples, apparently carried there by Spanish troopers. Up to that time the disease had no specific name, was thereafter referred to as the Great Pox. In 1530 Girolamo Fracastoro, an Italian, produced a Latin poem entitled Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. Its hero, a shepherd named Syphilus was smitten with the Great Pox. Thus did this ancient disease finally get a literary name...
Restorative treatment and X-ray research occupied the attention of the Technical Research department throughout the year. The chief undertaking in the restorative line was the retransference of a large Sienese painting of Girolamo di Benvenuto. In X-ray work, an extended study of early American painting was carried through...
...Girolamo Savonarola, whom Fra Bartolommeo's portrait shows as the most Italianate of all holy men, fled from an evil world into what he hoped would be the vital reality of a Dominican convent. He soon found monastic life a minor copy of the world outside. The corruption of the clergy became his battle-cry. At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes. But one day amidst a crowd of blasphemous soldiers he lost his temper and found his tongue. Called to preach...
Eloped. Janet Elizabeth Snowden, 19, daughter of the late Oilman James Hastings Snowden, sister of Marion Snowden who eloped with Prince Girolamo Rospigliosi (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931); and Prince di Sirignano don Francesco Caravita of Naples, 24; in Manhattan...
Divorced. Countess Eleanor Curran Moroni, former vaudeville actress and manicurist, from Count Girolamo Moroni, of Italy. She charged nonsupport...