Meanwhile, Somewhere Else In Italy...

[liadnan]

Italian police charge four people with the death of Roberto Calvi.

Fascinating this story should begin moving again right now. For those who've forgotten, Calvi was one of the people at the centre of the murky scandals surrounding the Vatican finances and died in very mysterious circumstances in 1982 (hanging under Blackfriars Bridge with his pockets rammed full of small change). In the aftermath it became clear he had been deeply involved in all sorts of murky enterprises, often connected with People From Sicily, and that his involvement (in succession to Michele Sindona, then awaiting trial in prison in New York for, um, being involved with People from Sicily, later, in 1986 either murdered or 'committed suicide' in prison in Italy) with the Vatican had left it in a godawful and embarassing financial mess. On the back of which David Yallop built an edifice of lies and loony theories which have been uncritically accepted by many about the death of John Paul I, but that's somewhat beside the main point. What really worries me is that one of the four is called Diotavelli. Wasn't that a character in Foucault's Pendulum?

Comments

[sshi.livejournal.com]

For some inadequately defined reason (possibly masochism), I happen to be reading that very book at the moment and can confirm that the character in question is actually called Diotallevi. So far his defining characteristics are being obsessed with symbolic numbers and thinking that he is Jewish when the other character don't agree. No comment as to what the hell is going on, but its all very entertaining.