Word: barbantini
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...steps in front of Venice's railway station, little King Vittorio Emmanuele stepped into a gaily beflagged launch and chuffed off down the serpentine Grand Canal to the Palazzo Pesaro. Behind the palace's mooring poles stood Signor Mario Alvera, Podesta (Mayor) of Venice, and Professor Nino Barbantini, director of The Modern Art Gallery. Together they led their King through the greatest collection ever assembled of the works of Venice's greatest painter, Tiziano Vecelli...
...Duchess Bevilacqua la Masa to use as a museum of modern art. Because Titian knew both the house and the Pesaro family well, once painted a famous view of the building, the palace was decided upon as the ideal place to have a loan exhibition of Titians. Professor Barbantini who wrote the letters, pulled the wires and did most of the spade work to make the exhibition possible, had another name for his show. He called it a Tribute of Regret, that so many of the works of Venice's greatest master had been allowed to leave the city...
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