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Most popular (and hardest to find) coin is the 500-lire piece, worth 80? in U.S. terms. Only last year, the government issued 5,000,000 new 500-lire coins commemorating the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth. Today the Dante coins have just about disappeared -except on the black market, where they bring as much as $4.80. For many Italian bank clerks, the first order of daily business is to roam the streets trying to scrounge coins from train stations and stores in return for bills; some banks are issuing 500-lire cashier's checks that pass...
Thus did Dante Alighieri stigmatize men of affluence, looking at commerce from his rather remote and medieval vantage point. Dante dominates and illuminates this week's BOOKS section in a story that marks the 700th anniversary of his birth and is justly titled A Man for the Ages...
That kind of freedom inspires a spirit of independence in which, says Bennington Dean Harry Pearson, the girls "take great pleasure in tweaking the noses of the middle classes." To celebrate the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante (see BOOKS) this spring, the girls donned costumes and reconstructed the campus according to the Divine Comedy-Hell was the college dump, Heaven a hilltop garden. Men at nearby colleges are prone to gossip about Bennington students as "rather bohemian girls of a sexually compliant nature," which sometimes leads the girls to answer requests for dates with an icy "I have...
...Colossal Crystal. Last week, in connection with the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth, the world was taking a fresh look at the man and the artist, and making a sharp reappraisal of his nature and his relevance. From Berlin to Buenos Aires, eminent dantisti were promulgating treatises and tributes. In Rome, Pope Paul was preparing an encyclical in Dante's honor. And in the U.S., Yale's Thomas G. Bergin produced the best general introduction to Dante ever written in English (Dante; Orion Press...
...Prime Ministers of many of those nations were present last week to help the mother of parliaments celebrate her 700th birthday in Westminster Hall. Led by House Speaker Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, in full-bottomed wig, black court gown trimmed in white lace and silver-buckled shoes, speakers from 41 Commonwealth legislatures entered the cavernous, 11th century hall to a flourish of trumpets from the scarlet-clad Grenadier Guards. Then came Britain's Lord Chancellor, his robe brocaded in gold, at the head of a procession of Commonwealth legislators, lace jabots at their throats. Next came the plumed platoon...