On March 2nd 1939, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (r. 1939-58) became the last Roman to be elected pope, taking the name Pius XII. March 2nd also happened to be Pacelli's birthday; he was sixty-three years old.
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My name is David Lown and I am an art historian from Cambridge, England. Since 2001 I have lived in Italy, where I run private walking tours of Rome.
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