sentences:  He submitted to the Venice Biennale of 1950 the painting "L'apoteosi di Bartali", which created a scandal.The work represented the meeting, which actually took place, between Pope Pius XII and the famous Italian cyclists Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali, in the presence of numerous characters represented as caricatures, among whom many recognized Italian president Luigi Einaudi, politicians Giulio Andreotti and Giuseppe Saragat and cardinal Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster.The work was removed from the Biennale on the grounds it had violated the rule that works submitted to the exhibition should not have been exhibited before.