Word: viterbo
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Farther inland the Allies swung around craterlike Lake Bracciano, dashed into walled Viterbo, classical home of hand-ome fountains and beautiful women. More than 400 smashed Nazi vehicles strewed Highway No. 2 from Rome. Near Highway No. 3, outside Civita Castellana, General Mark Clark's men found the tunneled underground stronghold where Kesselring had joked with his staff, studied his maps...
Petty Officer Albert Penny of the Royal Navy was captured by the Italians in August 1940 and interned at Viterbo, 40 miles from Rome. Last week Penny was back in England with a tale to tell...
Conclave. Once kings and nobles, the lower clergy, even the Italian populace, helped elect Popes. In 1180 Pope Alexander III restricted the right to Cardinals alone.* Century later, when Cardinals meeting in Viterbo took nearly three years to elect a Pope, an indignant populace locked them up, deprived them of all food except bread and water. Hence the word conclave, meaning "with...
First?That the State cede to the Holy See a plot of territory west of the Vatican, including a section of the Rome-Viterbo Railway and the old St. Peter's Station...
Among the group are views of the villa of Madama at Rome, which was designed by Raphael and two designed by Vignola, the Villa Lante at Viterbo and the Villa Farnese at Caprarola. The pictures, in addition to their purely artistic value as landscapes, offer an unusual opportunity in the study, of the details of Italian landscape architecture of the Renaissance with the typical use of marble pools, statuary, cypresses, and garden terraces, together with the employment of the mural niche, an adaptation of which was employed in the construction of the Widener Library...