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Yesterday in LA, a Catholics massed at Dodger (Traitorous Dogs) Stadium to protest the presence of an anti-Catholic hate group of perverts. I saw pics showing that, inside the stadium, hardly anyone showed up for the perverts’ spotlight moment.
Evil must be resisted.
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“M. ANTONIUS ET IO. BAPTISTA FRATRES
DE FOPPIS
COEMPTIS EXTURBATISQUE CIRCA
DOMIBUS
AREOLAM HANC DESIGNATUMQUE
VIAE SPATIUM
LAXAVERE DE SUO
YEAR SAL. MDCXXXIV”
“Marco Antonio Foppa and Giovanni Baptista Foppa, brother, their homes having been bought and driven out(?), extended (?) this aureola and designated space of the road out of their means, 1634 AD.”
I looked these guys up. M. Antonio was really into Tasso’s works. His brother Giovanni was apparently an Oratorian. My italian isn’t great. (Neither is Google translate) (Source: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/marco-antonio-foppa_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/) An interesting bit from the entry, translated by Google (not me):
“[M. A. Foppa’s] Roman house was a meeting place for some men of letters: in addition to Falconieri, cardinals Michelangelo Ricci, Giovanni Bona, Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, the prefect of the Vatican Library Stefano Gradi, Stefano Pignatelli, Lorenzo Magalotti. The archbishop of Bergamo Giovanni Barbarigo was linked to the circle and on his arrival in Rome in 1663 the Bergamo abbot Francesco Nazari was welcomed there on his recommendation. From the meetings in Foppa’s house the project of the Giornale de’literati would have arisen, which was written by Nazari from February 1668 to August 1675.”
Sounds like a happening place.
[Great comment. Thanks.]
I wrote about Card. Stefano Pignatelli last June during my Roman Sojourn. HERE He was a bit of a rake.