Former employee tried to sell Bernini manuscript on St. Peter’s Basilica: Vatican
ROME (AP) — Vatican police arrested a former employee on extortion charges after he allegedly tried to sell a 17th-century illustrated manuscript describing Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s designs for the baldachin of the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica to the Vatican itself. . Vatican prosecutors said the 18-page manuscript, which apparently contains the first known specifications … Read more