Word: andreas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Semifeudal Latifondisti, powerful landowners long protected by Fascism, saw in independence a chance to prolong their rule. Sicilians in general saw in Italy the source of all their recent grief. They flocked around Andrea Finocchiaro-Aprile, energetic mouthpiece for Sicilian separatism, and nominal head of the maffia...
More specific and even better news followed. The BBC reporter had stumbled on a golden horde of paintings from Florence's famed Uffizi Gallery, including works by Cimabue, Giotto, Masaccio, Filipino Lippi, Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto. Said...
...comparable to his work. He was born, out of wedlock, at the Tuscan town of Vinci, in 1452. His father was a prominent lawyer, his mother a peasant woman. The bastard was brought up by his father. Precociously gifted in painting and drawing, he was sent to work with Andrea del Verrocchio, a sculptor and art teacher of Florence...
Monsignor Andrea's words were calm, dignified, nonrevolutionary. But they ranged a distinguished churchman with students, professors, workers and other civilians in a mounting popular protest against a mounting rightist dictatorship. "To dominate slaves," exhorted the Bishop, "is doubly ignoble; to reign over the free is doubly glorious! Your Excellency, Señor Presidente: let your authority be the guaranty of our liberty...
Internal. The Andrea story seeped through a harsh wall of censorship. It reflected hard facts that the Ramirez Government could not hide...