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Fazio , another case of either-or, can be a shortening of the first name Bonifazio , which means good fate' and which has been popular in Italy owing both to its meaning and to the fact that it was borne by a number of saints and popes.
For their churches and private palaces, popes and princes have stripped the Colosseum of its precious marble, travertine, and metal.
From 1506 to 1626, it changed from the simple ground plan of a Greek cross, with four arms of equal length, as favored by Bramante and his arch-enemy Michelangelo, to the final form of Maderno’s Latin cross extended by a long nave, as demanded by the popes of the Counter-Reformation.
In Rome, the highly political popes played the Lombard duchies against those of the Byzantine Empire.
At their best, the popes and cardinals replaced military conquest by moral leadership and persuasion; at their worst, they could show the same hunger for political power and worldly wealth as any caesar or grand duke.