A POPE´S ORDER STOPPED AN ARISTOCRATIC DUEL

Source: Wikipedia.

By HvH

Rome, March 15, 1912. During a chess game, an Italian prince, member of the black nobility, slapped on the face another Roman aristocrat, the commander of the Palatine guards, the Vatican´s guard of honour. 

So they decided to settle things on a duel.

But the Pope said no.

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