Word: alessandro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alessandro Allori: Christ Lowered from the Cross (Museum of Santa Croce...
...more recent times, stories abound concerning baton accidents. Maestro Alessandro stabbed himself. One conductor I know personally jabbed his left eye. Any musician can recall numerous occasions on which the "stick" has gone flying into the orchestra or audience-unintentionally, of course...
...severe. Unlike Germanic peoples, the Italians built their palaces with austere exteriors, content to have the opulence displayed within. But for the past 15 years, the Palazzo Capponi has defended from public gaze a greater treasure than most. Locked up there was the collection amassed by the late Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi. No outsider knew exactly what it contained and the only people with access to it were the dead count's heirs and a handful of their friends...
...note relayed to the West German ambassador's residence in Guatemala City had been scribbled hastily by the ambassador himself. "Do not be afraid," wrote Count Karl von Spreti, 62, to his son Alessandro, 11. "My health is good, my heart is as stout as the Bühler Höhe [a well-known hill in Bavaria's Black Forest]. I am treated with respect and courtesy. I embrace you fondly. Papi." Last week, shortly after he wrote that note, the ambassador was murdered with a bullet behind the right...
...earth's interior. Scientists from all over Italy are currently investigating the rising ground. Offshore, an Italian navy oceanographic vessel is taking soundings. Two volcanologists have rushed to the scene from Japan. "We hope the movement will continue long enough for us to collect valuable data," says Alessandro Oliveri del Castillo, assistant director of the institute. "Without causing any damage, of course...