Roman Catholic Cardinal. Considered by many as the greatest Latin prodigy of the twentieth century, Giugnola born Antonio Bacci entered seminary in Florence and was ordained priest there on August 9, 1909. Faculty member and spiritual director of the named seminary between 1910 and 1922, an expert Latinist as he was, Bacci was appointed staff member of the Secretariat of State of the Vatican City in 1922, serving as the longtime secretary of Briefs to the Princes between 1931 and 1960, holding an ordinary audience with the Pope every first Friday of each month with his office situated in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican, preparing thus for thirty one years the Latin text of important Vatican documents during the Pontificates of Pius XI, Pius XII and John XXIII. The latter created him cardinal deacon in the consistory of March 28, 1960 with the deaconry of Sant'Eugenio. Elected archbishop of the titular see of Colonia de Cappadocia on April 5, 1962, he received his episcopal consecration on the following April 19 at the Patriarchal Lateran Basilica in Rome from the Pontiff himself. Called "Cultor e Amator" of the Latin language, he published along the years four editions of a Latin dictionary: "Lexicon vocabulorum quae difficilius latine redduntur", with the work including terms that did not exist in Cæsar's day, coined by the cardinal himself, such as 'gummis salivaria' (chewing gum) and 'barbara sahatio' (the twist). He also published "Viva Maria!", a famous poem in ottava rima which narrates the Aretine uprisings against the French in 1799 as well as "Daily Meditations", eventually translated in various languages. Claiming that Latin is "a living and vital language for all cultivated persons", in September 1969, along with Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, he wrote a letter to Paul VI, supporting a study by a group of theologians under the direction of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre criticizing the proposed 'Novus Ordo Mass', which remains widely known as the "Ottaviani Intervention" and is often used by traditionalist Catholics as support for their opposition to the 'Novus Ordo Mass'. A stroke brought his end in his Vatican apartment in 1971.