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...petitions the Holy Father pronounced: "Decernimus et definimus. . , . We decree and define that Blessed Louise de Marillac, widow of Antoine le Gras, is a saint." St. Louise de Marillac was born of a noble family in 1591 in Paris. Married to Antoine le Gras, secretary to Queen Marie de Medici, she became a mother at 22, a widow at 34. Thereafter under the guidance of a confessor, who later became St. Vincent de Paul, Mme Le Gras devoted herself to good works. In 1633 she gathered about her four young women whom she trained in caring for the poor...
...background to the Simon-Mussolini talks, Italy's Chamber of Deputies was treated to a stirring speech by Marquis Giacomo Medici del Vascello, rapporteur of Italy's Naval budget. Crediting Italy with a 12% reduction of her naval expenditures for the coming year, the Marquis cried: "Elsewhere the vision of peace for which the world clamors is receding. . . . During the useless [Disarmament Conference] discussions at Geneva, the three major naval powers [U. S., Britain and Japan] worked to add new vessels to their fleets. . . . Japan today invades China. Inspired by race hatred she will plan tomorrow against white...
...much sentries as interpreters. Bilingual, they can read the barbaric ensigns of these seeming foreigners and translate them into symbols that will not frighten the commonest sense. Interpreter Meier-Graefe's biography of crazy Painter van Gogh is known already to a few U. S. readers (the Medici Society, London, first published it in a limited de luxe edition, 1922). Significant of the increased interest in left-wing artists and writers is this revised translation, sponsored by the Literary Guild. An artist in his own right, Biographer Meier-Graefe has fused van Gogh's letters into a narrative...
...tyro Demosthenes. But one day amidst a crowd of blasphemous soldiers he lost his temper and found his tongue. Called to preach at Florence (after one dismal failure there) he startled a goggling congregation into enthusiasm, soon became the city's foremost preacher. The mighty Lorenzo de' Medici tried to domesticate him, but Savonarola had more spiritual fish to fry. He began to cast in the troubled waters of politics. When the French invasion came and the Medici were ousted from Florence, Savonarola practically bossed the town. But when he ran afoul of the Pope (ill-famed Alexander...
...virtuous, she smelled of man, and she did not understand art." For graphic historical writing, Author Roeder's picture of the sack of Rome (1527) will stand with the best of them. And everywhere through the magnificent murk sound the great names, like bells: Borgia, Delia Rovere, Medici, Este. Gonzaga, Sforza...