34/85 He had a sort of model farm, known as the _Albereto Nicolai_, near the Basilica of St.Paul Without the Walls. He was an able administrator, and a man of superior attainments; and had he only possessed common honesty, he would have been in time a great man--as greatness is understood in Rome. He was a _Prelato di Fiochetto_, and held the post of _Uditore della R.C. Apostolica_, one of the four high offices which necessarily lead to Red Hats. But unfortunately Monsignore Nicolai affected the good things of this life over-much. |