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Virtue of the loser, Enrico Venturi of Italy, was an unshakable courage that enabled him to rise after a knockdown in the seventh round, win the tenth and twelfth, finish the fight on his feet after another knockdown in the 18th. The winner was Pedro Montanez, nicknamed Don Diablo (Sir Devil), of Puerto Rico. He had exhibited the agility of a hellion dancing on hot coals, a punch as persuasive as a red-hot pitchfork. The fight with Venturi was his 23rd professional appearance in the U. S., his 23rd victory. Almost inevitably it will be rewarded by a chance...
Continuing the series of lectures on "Italian Criticism of the Renaissance", Professor Lionello Venturi of the University of Turin will address Fine Art students in the Large Lecture Room of Fogg Museum for the second time at 4 o'clock. The three lectures are open to all members of the University...
...Italian criticism of the Renaissance" is to be the subject of three public lectures to be given by Professor Lionello Venturi, of the University of Turin. Professor Venturi, son of the great historian of Italian art, is the author of several books on Venetian painting and on criticism. In America the visiting lecturer is known for his book on Italian Paintings in America. Lectures at Fogg will be given on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons of next week at 4.30 o'clock. The public is invited...
...Vatican hurried a long-skirted Jesuit father last week. As he padded silently by, Vatican attendants and those who watch over Premier Mussolini's household whispered and nodded wisely to each other. "It's the man in black," they said. They further identified him as Father Tacchi-Venturi, a little-known priest without rank or official authority but a trusted confidant of both Pope Pius XI and Il Duce. Six years ago, some of them remembered, he had been attacked in his study, stabbed in the back. Two years later another priest who looked like him was assassinated...
Upshot of Father Tacchi-Venturi's spadework was a conference between Count Cesare de Vecchi, Italian Ambassador to the Holy See, Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State. After Count de Vecchi left, the Pope, Cardinal Pacelli and Father Tacchi-Venturi were closeted until late in the afternoon. Later His Holiness said: "We do not know whether a solution can be reached in a short or long time, but it certainly will be reached when the Lord wishes-that is to say, at the moment most suitable for the good of souls...