The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-19
A POPE'S NIECE.
That Is the Fate of American Girl-A
Romance of the Vatican.

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That Is the Fate of an American GirI-A
Romance of the Vatican.
New York Hour.
American girls have high matrimonial as
plratlons Sometimes, in their fight, they
catch German baron, an Italian count a
French marquis Rarely in the uppermost
ar OF all, they encounter an English peer, or
even the son OF peer or even the nephew
OF peer. But rarely, very rarely, is it given
to them to capture the nephew of a Pope.
Yet that is the fate of Mile. Sylvine Bueno,
wealthy heiress from Cuba.
The father OF Mile. Bueno was Spaniard
who had migrated when young to the Pearl
OF the Antilles, made his fortune in bank,
and returned to Europe. There he gave
himself up to pleasure; whether at Paris
Rome or Seville, whether summing himself
at the seaside or following up the hunt at
Fontainebleau. His wife did the match
making for his daughters. One of them
married Senior Agrela, a Spaniard. Another,
Sylvlne, was staying with her relatives at
Seville, the Paris of Ahdalusia, when a tall
and handsome young Italian arrived from
Rome on mission, which decided her fate.
The handsome Italian was Count Camille
Pecci, nephew of Pope Leo XIII.
No family ever lived more quietly than
that of Gioacchino Pecci now head of the
Catholic Church. Before the time of Rome
itself they had been settled in the heart of
Italy, at Carpineto, perched on the Volscian
mountains. Here i'll an atmosphere OF no.
bility and refinement, the childhood of the
future Pope was spent, and here, at the
Academy OF Mobiles, he went with his broth
ers to school. His brothers were four. Gui-
seppe, Carlo, Giovanni Battista, and Ferdi-
nando, OF whom Giuseppe alone survives, a
devout man and Cardinal. His sisters were
two, Anna Maria and Catarina, both of
whom are dead. Giovanni BatUista left five
n Il Ann laff
born March L, 1855, is the second son OF
Giovanni Battista.
He has long been favorite of the Pope
who gave him apartments at the Vatican
made him member of the Guardia Mobile
and entrusted him with delicate missions .
His eldest brother had been engaged to Sig
norma Zaccheo, maiden of Carpineto, and
when his uncle was raised to power he was
counseled to break his engagement for all
the heiresses in Rome would be now at his
feet; but Leo XIII would have none of it,
and Signorina Zaccheo became the wife of
Count Luigi Pecci. His elder sister, Anna
married the Marchese Canal, and received
from the Pope the dowry which Luigi re-
ceived-12,000 Roman crowns, to-wit. But
Camille was in higher favor than either Luz
igi or Anna. He was the ideal of fine
young soldier, and the ladies were all in love
with him.
In the spring of 1882 he was dispatched by
MS uuCle 10 carry carulnalS nat TO the late
Arch bishop of Seville, Monsignor Lluchy
Garriga. He was received with reclamation
by the Andalusian aristocracy. He went
everywhere, and whether it was from bal
cony where the guitar was being thrummed,
or from the shadow of q Moorish gate, or
from a row of the amphitheater at bull
fight, two eyes flashed out upon him and
pierced him to the heart. Six months went
by; he had returned TO Rome he was on duty
one morning in the Vatican, when again he
beheld the eyes. They had come to see the
ordinary sights of the tourist-Raphaels
TRANSPORTATION" Michael Angeles Last
Judgment and they fell on the figure of a
Guardia Mobile, and sealed the destiny OF
Sylvine Bueno and Camille Pecci.
The romance which began under the
orange-trees of Seville, and was continued in
the corridors of the Vatican, will end at
Paris, where Monsignor di Rende, the Papal
Nuncio, will pronounce the benedction over
the married pair. But it is remarked that
none of the recent Popes have been willing
to advance their relatives. No charge of ne
potism was made against Plus VII. Leo MI,
Plus VIII, Gregory XVI. or Plus TX. Their
elevation brought no material advantages to
their families-the Chiaramonti, the Della
Genga. the Castielioni, the Cappellari and
the Masta-Ferrati. And though the
cypress, the star and the lilies OF
the Peccis are carefully designed in
young lockwood by the gardeners of the
Vatican, the Pope shows very little ancestral
pride, and quickly passes the heraldic device
to look at the golden pheasants and the fan
tailed pigeons in the aviary.
At the same time, he is rich and thrifty
While his ordinary food is goats milk and
wine from Velletri, while his table is more
poorly equipped than that of needy curate,
his patrimony is growing large. And when
the time comes for him to distribute it to his
family the gossips of Rome believe that the
lions share will be given to the handsome
young officer who is about to lead Mile.
Bueno to the altar.