Word: arezzo
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...painter and mathematician, Piero della Francesca (circa 1418-92). Legend has it that Piero was a fatherless boy who took the name of his mother Francesca. He studied at Florence, returned to Borgo San Sepolcro to get his first major commission, traveled through Italy painting in Rimini, Ferrara, Rome, Arezzo and Urbino, then settled down to spend his last 14 years in his native town compiling two mathematical treatises. Latterday Sansepolcrans prided themselves on owning three of Piero's major works, and kept alive the hope that more would one day come to light...
...selflessness triumphing over the bloody tyrant Nicolaio, and causing him to lift his siege of the city of Viterbo in a sequence filled with fire and spectacle. The picture ends with Francis and his disciples going forth separately into the world to preach peace-to Siena, Florence, Arezzo, Pisa and Spoleto...
...slow fight through northern Italy began to speed up again. Both the Fifth and Eighth Armies made their most rapid advances in weeks, passed Arezzo in the center, on the west drew close to the German Arno River line, outpost of the Gothic mountain line where the Germans hope to stand and hold...
...center the Eighth Army broke a three-week deadlock by bursting through four German divisions to capture the high way hub of Arezzo, controlling German lateral communications, then tooled on across the Arno...
Little Civitella, nine miles off the main highway to Arezzo, has never been described by that careful German traveler, Karl Baedeker. But Italians will remember...