Word: alighieri
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There are two Alfred E. Vellucci Parks in East Cambridge. The intersection of Quincy and Cambridge Streets outside Gund Hall is Dante Alighieri Square. Even Harvard Square has had some Vellucci-inspired names, including Christopher Columbus Square and, one St. Patrick's day long ago, Piazza Leprechano...
Speaking at East Cambridge's Dante Alighieri Center, King, a former state representative, called for a "progressive social agenda" in a speech frequently interrupted by applause from a capacity crowd of about...
Waldman-a writer prone to detect the Eleusinian mysteries at the bottom of every rabbit hole-interprets as a recovery of myth. All the work is extremely knowing. Its images, from Pisani's impenetrably hermetic Rosicrucian allegories to Ontani's pale face photographed as Dante Alighieri, in red hood and laurel wreath, all hang suspended in double or even triple sets of quotation marks. One can have quite a lot of pick-the-reference fun in this show without getting much in the way of aesthetic thrills...
...some of the designations seem motivated at least in part by politics--"Ethnic and cultural heritage appreciation" is code for the Dante Alighieri Center, a pet project of powerful city councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, who has criticized institutional guidelines in the past when they seemed likely to limit his plans...
Samuel Ussia wants to spearhead a second Renaissance at the intersection of Hampshire and Portland streets. Ussia, president of the Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, hopes the construction of a $1 million Italian Center of Culture in Cambridge will be "the tool by which Italian-Americans insert themselves into the mainstream of the historical process in America...