Word: quirinale
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Sixty-nine years ago, on a September day, the armies of Vittorio Emanuele II marched toward the gates of Rome. The city's weary old ruler, Pope Pius IX, ordered his Papal zouaves not to fire upon the invaders. He shut himself up in the Vatican, there to remain...
With the Roman populace well aware of these happy auguries, the Roman-born Pope left Vatican City one morning last week. It was raining. He wore a red hat and cape, insisted that his car, in a procession of 18, be open so that his people could see him. At...
"The Vatican and the Quirinal, divided by the Tiber River, are linked together by peace and by a common religion of their fathers and ancestors. The Tiber waves have overthrown and sunk the unhappy past so that on the Tiber shores olive branches are now blossoming out. Today the hand...
Early in the week a Frenchman named Hubert Lagardelle, who lives in Rome and hobnobs with Signor Mussolini, went to Paris supposedly charged with a secret mission. Before long everyone knew the secret. He called on a Daladier lieutenant, Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie, and suggested that he tell...
To the Quirinal Palace last week was called Sir Aldo Castellani, the great Anglo-Italian physician whose work as Sanitary High Commissioner for East Africa made Italians able to fool pessimists who said their army could never live and conquer amid the heat and pullulating pestilences of Ethiopia. Sir "Aldo...