Word: arrighi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last week a military airplane from Algiers quietly set down on Corsica, the small Mediterranean island from which Napoleon Bonaparte sallied forth to win an emperor's crown. Out of the plane stepped Corsican-born Pascal Arrighi, a French National Assembly Deputy and passionate adherent of the two-week-old Algerian insurrection. Barely 13 hours later, 36-year-old Pascal Arrighi, at the head of 250 Corsica-based paratroopers and a mob of 10,000, seized control of the island capital of Ajaccio. From the balcony of the Ajaccio Prefectural Headquarters a local contractor announced, amid...
...Aubrey West of London never worried much about the illegible scratches and scrawls of his careless handwriting. Then, one day in 1950, while browsing at his club, he happened to spot a book containing examples of Renaissance calligraphy. One sample that caught his eye was that of Ludovico degli Arrighi, a 16th Century Vatican scribe who wrote thus...
...intricate that papal bulls were almost illegible, and each was usually sent out from the Vatican chancery accompanied by a duplicate written in another hand. The writing used for the translation was merely a variation on the Carolingian theme-the slanting chancery calligraphy of men like Ludovico degli Arrighi...
...clear and handsome hand. Said the London Times: "The influence of the 16th Century Roman chancery style is predominant, and undoubtedly beneficial ; but the exhibits are commendably free from formalism, and it is clearly the intention of those in charge of this admirable experiment that the bone structure of Arrighi, Johnston and Fairbank* shall be well covered with idiosyncratic muscle and flesh, to produce a sound, natural cursive...
...Famed calligraphers all. Ludovici Arrighi of Rome published the first manual for nonprofessionals in 1522. Edward Johnston, who died in 1944, was known as the "father of modern English calligraphy." Today's best-known English calligrapher: 55-year-old Alfred J. Fairbank...