Word: piccolomini
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...late 15th and early 16th centuries, the Borgia family brought the papacy to its nadir. After the death of the notorious Alexander VI in 1503, Cardinal Sforza succeeded in frustrating Borgia ambitions by having decrepit Cardinal Piccolomini elected Pius III. Rapacious Vatican bureaucrats, accustomed to plundering the apartments of every new Pope on the assumption that the Holy Father would need no further worldly goods, so stripped Pius' cell that he even had to buy back the bed in which he died of gout just 25 days later...
...well-disciplined company can hope to make sense (or nonsense) of them. The High Tor Company does remarkably well at meeting the requirements of Feydeau. Jeffrey Peters as Bois-D'Enghien, the protagonist who loves too wisely and too much, carries himself like a sophisticated Groucho Marx. Rocco Piccolomini as the General is a fine old fashioned zany with a phony moustache and a phony accent to match, both of which contribute immeasurably to his persona, as he and the posturing poetaster Bouzin (Michael Baird) flutter like moths around the corona of the coquette, Lucette (Elsie Adams...
...foreign diplomatic mission in Italy, met President Luig? Einaudi, to present her credentials as the new U.S. Ambassador. As she left after a ten-minute, closed-door chat, a photographer caught an act of gallant politesse in the courtyard: a deep bow of welcome from Presidential Aide Count Giovanni Piccolomini (and a stolid look of approval from one of the servants...
Emilio Lussu (Road to Exile) describes a year's Alpine campaign (1916-17). He describes two mutinies, devotes little space to actual fighting, writes mainly of personalities, is most effective on the salty subject of his fellow officers. General Piccolomini, lecturing to his staff on Coordination of Intellects, proved by irrefutable logic that a semicircular excavation on a nearby mound was a machine-gun emplacement. An adjutant major ventured to suggest that the general was wrong. "Oh. What is it, then?" sneered the general. "It's a latrine...
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