^He dropped "Porcelli", "pigs" in Italian, from his name at the suggestion of Pope Benedict XV[1] and appears several times in Acta Apostolicae Sedis between 1916 and 1927 as Giovanni Tacci. In 1914 he signed two letters to Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val as Giovanni Tacci.[2] The New York Times nevertheless called him Giovannetti Tacci Porcelli when reporting he was made a cardinal in 1921.[3]