The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15
A CARDINALS LOVE.
The FavOriteS and the Fortunes
Of Cardinal AntOneIIi.
london Truth.


L am not surprised at the Coun
tess Lambertini's claim to the $4,000.
900 francs at which AntonelIi's for
tune is estimated. What | wonder
at is, that there are not a great ma
ny other claimants. The Cardinal
ever evinced repugnance for holy
orders. To be a deacon he was
obliged to take the VOW of celibacy !;
but he knew himself too we'll to be-
come priest, and in all his life new
er confessed a penitent. Numerous
were the young Romans whom he
brought up and settled. The daugh-
ter Of a Portuguese singer was watch
ed by him with paternal fondness
from her cradle upwards. A hoy
now in the Papal Guard often visited
him in his rooms in the Vatican, and
never left him without handsome
present. The Cardinal bought an
estate near Terracina for this youth.
who is the son of Sicilian Abbess.
His Eminence was lavish in his gen.
erosity to the daughter of a dipIom-
attic Count and Countess from Nun
ich.
In his will Antonelli repudiated
with yirtuous Indignation the reports
wicked men had spread about the
immensity of his fortune and its ori-
gin. He derived, he said, the best
part oft from his respectable father.
who was farmer at Somnino. In
England this was believed in Rome
it was not.
The respectable father left eight
children, and unless a loves-and-
fishes miracle was performed at the
cutting up of his estate, what fell to
each inheritor could not have been
fat portion. There were five sons
and three daughters, and Jacopo
was the fifth child.
An excellent family man was this
Prince of the Church. His relations
were shrewd, avaricious contadini.
but close-mouthed and reliable. He
was not ashamed of them, and they
served him faithfully in transacting
financial business.
Cardinal Antonelli was concerned |
with the financialists of Louis Napo-
leon. His brother Angelo, under
the pretext of being sent to Paris to
seTUetIler Sacconi. the Nuncio. went
there to operate with Mires, the pa
tron, by the by, of Louis Veuillot.
on the downfall of that
got hold of Viennese
clerk of Rothschild's, q handsome,
lmpudent fellow, gifted with a fo-
rid kind of clog Ence. He advised
him to be converted and to enter or
ders, and he secretly pushed him on
at the Tuilleries, where the Hebrew
q 4
priest who was at once raised to red
became a prodigious "a
vorite with the ladies, the confessor
ofthe Empress, and cut out the beau.
Nigra.
Filippe Antonelli, another brother.
was also inancialist. He was the
man of straw at the Ro-
man Bank, ofwhich he was the man
ager Filippe is counted the most
man in Rome. He lives in
4 small house at Santa Agata ALA
Suberra. and bears the title of
Count.
Gregoria, the eldest brother. is
she gentleman of the family. His
special function was to look afser
,he Cardinals children. and to nego-
late hush-money payments. His
son Agostino, was the uncle's favor
te, and was obliged by him to marry I
/ daughter of the Countess Garcia.
It was stipulated. however. that this
marriage was only to be Platonic
Partnership. The niece-in-law was
given a royal dover. aud was be-
Iueathed the Cardinals silver-giIt
breakfast service. which he prayed
Ter not ito lock up. but to use free.
"" Since his death she has gone to
i've in Paris. sasias4 d.laA lilr u
Signora Marconi, who adopted theA9