02-02-2026, 10:24 PM
(02-02-2026, 01:04 PM)Rafal wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Relationships between the Catholic Church and new united, secular Italian state were really bad and hostile at that time.
But that cuts it both ways: with the relations so strained, would they have risked engaging in a sale that apparently was highly illegal, just for that sum of money?
I suppose it is possible that Wilfrid promised them some percentage of the profits that he expected to make. Is there any record of him donating any sum to the Society of Jesus, or to specific entities in Rome?
By the way, if Wilfrid never publicly mentioned Villa Mondragone, why did that name came up at all?
Could that have been a lie that he told only privately to someone?
Or maybe someone deduced that it must have been that high school from other clues? Like Strickland having been a teacher there, at some point? Or the high school having received some of the PUG books in the 1860s?
All the best, --stolfi
