“As for you, my relatives, who have been so long spelling upon this fortune, on which ‘I had concentrated all my affections,’ you are not going to touch a penny of it, and not one of you will be able to boast that you have squandered the millions which the old Marquis d’Aligre had taken so many years to hoard up.” CARDINAL ANTONELLI’S WILL The great wealth Cardinal Antonelli, who died in 1876, is reported to have left, has aroused special interest with regard to his will, and given rise to endless gossip, not only as to its contents, but concerning the document itself. At first it was reported that it could not be found; then, that it had disappeared in some remarkable manner; that it had been purposely destroyed; that the cardinal had made no will; and many other _canards_ were circulated. Later, however, the _Libertà_ announced that it was in the hands of the public notary in the Piazza San Claudio, where it could be seen, but that only those having a direct interest in its contents could be permitted to examine it. Subsequently the _Popolo Romano_ published the document _in extenso_, together with the notary’s statement concerning it, as follows: “REPERTORY NO. 187 “Reigning His Majesty Victor Emmanuel II., by the grace of God and the will of the nation, King of Italy. “I, the undersigned, public notary, certify that among my acts under the hereafter-inscribed day is to be found the registered report of the deposit of the holograph testament of the defunct Most Eminent Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli, made at the instance of the illustrious advocate, Signor Antonio Bachetoni, to the following effect: