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...year later, Fulvio Croce, president of the Turin Bar Association and newly appointed chief defense counsel, was murdered. Once again, the trial was postponed. Finally, last March the proceedings resumed. Despite yet another murder, of a police inspector who had helped apprehend one of the defendants, Judge Guido Barbaro vowed that the trial would...
...Last week after nearly four months of testimony and five days of deliberation, the four-man, two-woman jury. which under Italian law was joined by Barbaro and his assistant judge, returned its verdict. It acquitted 16 of the defendants, ordered a new trial for one and found 29 guilty; Curcio, 37, got the maximum sentence: 15 years...
Throughout the trial, the 15 defendants in custody (26 were free on their own recognizance, five are still at large), kept up an emotional tirade against the judge, the jury and their own defense counsel. But when Judge Barbaro read the verdict, as more than 800 carabinieri and other police ringed the courthouse, the defendants were absent from the steel-barred cage in which they had been kept during the proceedings. They had all elected to remain in their cells as a protest against what they called a "court of the regime...
...with planning Moro's kidnaping. But they made the most of it, shouting to the courtroom, "Moro is in the hands of the proletariat, and he will be tried. Long live the Red Brigades!" The defendants refused to cooperate with their court-appointed counsel, but Judge Guido Barbaro rejected a request that the prisoners be allowed to represent themselves. Having resolved the legal ruckus, the court ordered the trial to resume again this week...
...proper figure to show the unity, infinite essence, uniformity and justice of God"-Palladio echoed a longstanding Renaissance fascination with absolute geometric shapes as metaphor. His purism was extreme. It is strange, for instance, to find an architect in 16th century Venice, a contemporary of Veronese (who frescoed the Barbaro villa), objecting to murals in churches-"Among all colors none is more suitable to temples than white; by reason that the purity of this color. . . is highly grateful to God." Of course, the preference was not God's but Palladio's. Why did he pre fer white? Because...