Before Rome awoke, the jurisconsult supervised the grooming of an Indian white elephant, an “exotic” marvel meant to match ...

In a victory for nominative determinism as well as ecumenical relations, a wooden bowl created by a man called Brian Wooden ...

His bowl is now among a vast array of gifts given to popes over the centuries, from pictures and plants to a live elephant, Hanno, given to Pope Leo X by the King of Portugal in 1514, and painted by ...

In a victory for nominative determinism as well as ecumenical relations, a wooden bowl created by a man called Brian Wooden was presented to ...

The picture of the Holy Father with the elephants inevitably evokes the memory of Annone, a majestic 4-year-old albino elephant from India, who five centuries ago was the pet of Pope Leo X and ...

This former school and home to the secretary of a Pope was recently renovated by an Italian film director and is moments from ...

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The weevils are in the cotton, the foxes are in the henhouse, the skunks are in the garden party, and the barbarians are ...

A wooden bowl made from churchyard yew by a Suffolk woodworker called Brian Wooden, was admired by the Pope this month.

Though the most widely known royal pets may be Queen Elizabeth II’s brigade of Pembroke Welsh Corgis, the late monarch’s ...

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family that rose to become one of the most powerful political families … Continue ...