Word: ludovico
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619), a butcher's son, was the eldest and founder of the Carracci's Academy, by preference specialized in religious subjects. Agostino (1557-1602), trained first as a goldsmith, was witty, handsome and erudite. A superb draftsman, he excelled in etching, and his paintings of broad-bottomed nudes are among the Carracci's best...
...hard to find the immediate provocation for the brutal murder. The day before, O Momento had published a story by Reporter Gurgel aimed at Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, governor of the state of Goiaz and the newspaper's prime political enemy. It charged that Pedro Arantes, whom the governor had appointed head of the Electric Energy Commission, was running the state's drastic power rationing to suit himself. The paper printed its attack under the headline HE CAME AND PRODUCED LIGHT. Soon after the story appeared, Arantes met the reporter on the street, slapped him across the face...
...appointment of an investigating tribunal is the result of Vatican dissatisfaction with the laxity of the knights' control of their finances in recent years, and the knights' insistence on their autonomy in religious affairs. When the last grand master, Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani Delia Rovere, died last fall at 85, after a reign of 20 years (TIME, Nov. 26), it seemed to Rome like a good time to bring the knights' rights and privileges up to date and into line. The cardinals on the tribunal are well acquainted with their subject: all of them are also members...
...affairs, Banker Aubrey West of London never worried much about the illegible scratches and scrawls of his careless handwriting. Then, one day in 1950, while browsing at his club, he happened to spot a book containing examples of Renaissance calligraphy. One sample that caught his eye was that of Ludovico degli Arrighi, a 16th Century Vatican scribe who wrote thus...
...Gothic became so intricate that papal bulls were almost illegible, and each was usually sent out from the Vatican chancery accompanied by a duplicate written in another hand. The writing used for the translation was merely a variation on the Carolingian theme-the slanting chancery calligraphy of men like Ludovico degli Arrighi...