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...dash. Certainly the Yugoslav attack on northern Albania, capturing 100 men in about the time that the Nazis were taking 100,000 in Thrace and Yugoslavia was not the answer. At noon on the sixth day, German motorcycle patrols met the van guard of a pompous Italian parade (the Arezzo and Florence Divisions of regulars, a regiment of Bersaglieri, a legion of Blackshirts) which had succeeded in push ing about six miles out of Albania against little resistance except an unseasonal snow storm...
...born as to be nameless, Aretino took his name from his town, Arezzo, where he was born on Good Friday of the year Columbus sighted America. (Good Friday, as his enemies loved to remind the world, was the legendary birthday of the Antichrist.) Mature and restive at 15, he quit home. He worked, during the next few years, as a servant in Rome, a street singer, a hostler in Bologna, a moneylender's agent, tax collector, mule driver, hangman's assistant, miller, courier, pimp, mountebank, swindler, galley slave. At 24 he got into the service of Agostino Chigi...
...happy concatenation of coincidence, says he, a full understanding of Dante is impossible. But anybody can at least partly understand the few known facts about him. Though of gentle birth, his father was a moneylender. Like every upstanding Florentine Dante was an active citizen, fought for his town against Arezzo and Pisa. In the battle of Campaldino he admitted that "he experienced great fear." When the political pendulum swung the other way Dante was first banished from Florence, later condemned to death. But he was never captured; he spent his 20 years of exile roaming over Italy, died...
Piero Delia Francesca, who was born about 1406 at Borge San Sepulcro, city situated between Arezzo and Urbino and who died in 1492, was one of the leaders of the Umbrian school. Pierro, besides being an artist of distinction, has a great reputation as a mathematician. In 1439 he was apprenticed to Domenic Veneziano, and assisted him in painting the chapel of Sant Egidio in Santa Mari Novella, Florence. He was engaged in painting a fresco in Rimini in 1451. His most important series of frescoes are those in the choir of San Francesco, in Arezzo, depicting the history...
...picture now in the Fogg Art Museum is extremely beautiful in color. Mr. Berenson believes that it bears favorable comparison with the famous Arezzo frescoes, and of the color he said, he should be at a loss to point to any other. Italian work that is of a color at once so powerful and yet neither warm nor cold, but fused in a manner soft as harmonious...