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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 259, 19 April 1878, Page 5

The Voee delta Verita publishes a letter containing many interesting details repecting the late Cardinal Riario-Sforza. It seems the Liberal journals vied with the Catholic in praising this true prinoa of the Church. The Romans styled him " a man of God ; " the Pungolo commended bis " unsullied purity and his heroic charity ; " the fiu>' colo called him the " modern Carlo Borromeo ; " and the Fanfvlla characterised him as " glory of Naples." It was proposed that the Largo di Donna Regina and the Strada dell' Anticsglia should be in the future named the Piazza and Via Bisto Riario-Sforza. A wellknown sculptor offered to erect a statue to his memory, and subscriptions for this purpose were opened in the columns of the lAberta Cattolwa and the JDiscussiane. His birth wjiS noble on the side of his parents. His father was Giovanni Riario-Sforza, Duke of Grhnma and Marquis of Corleto. His mother, Maria Gaetana Cattaneo, of the priucely house of San Nicandro. While Archbishop of Naples he saw two revolutions, four invasions of cholera, and three eruptions of Mount Vesuvius. He was twee driven into exile by the revolutionists. He was of so easy a nature as to snffer his servants to neglect him, and kept a long time in his house a drunken cook who sometimes sent up dinners if was impossible to eat.