Word: michelangelos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope seem partly a revulsion from those articles he opened with a bang. At any rate they show what he, whom Henry James befriended long ago, can do when he tries. In between ceremonies he visits the Papal Observatory, Castel Gandolfo and the grave of Keats, muses about Michelangelo. The scarcely-hoped-for election of Cardinal Pacelli, that saintly cleric, assures him that a spiritual fountain is still there...
...spent his cadgings bottomlessly on himself, on poor people, and on the women and artist bums who swarmed his house. He tirelessly promoted his friend Titian; managed, by two extraordinary letters, to scare Francis I out of an alliance with Turkey; quarreled with everyone from his own secretaries to Michelangelo...