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...Passive. Biagio Morelli, 39, a soft-spoken Parma city employee, went even further. He organized Italy's first real consumer boycott. Soon the cramped office of his all-volunteer Confederation of Consumers was filled with irate housewives eager to demonstrate or to sign petitions calling for an investigation. Says Morelli, who charges that the wholesalers made $40 million profit on the operation: "People always said the Italian consumer was too passive and uninformed to be organized. Yet look at the effect...
...Pope Paul Ill's master of ceremonies, Monsignor Biagio da Cesena, objected to the many nude figures in Michelangelo's Last Judgment. In revenge, Michelangelo rounded out the picture with a caricature of Biagio as Minos, a character from Hades with ass's ears and a serpent around his midriff. When Biagio protested, the witty Pope replied: "If the painter had sent you to purgatory, I would have done my best to get you out. But I have no influence in hell...
Critics looked with special interest at the work of the three Pinto brothers-Angelo, Biagio, Salvatore-because they are protégés of Philadelphia's Dr. Albert C. Barnes and are included with his Cezannes, Matisses and Picassos in his big private museum.* Angelo was showing a blue-trousered dart thrower leaning against an amusement park counter tended by a pretty girl in red uniform ($300). Biagio, youngest of the three brothers, had a red-nosed clown with guitar ($650). Salvatore's picture of sprawling bathers at a public beach was priced...
There was frost in the air last week but spring in the heart of Luigi Pinto, fruit dealer of No. 1827 South 16th St., Philadelphia. His three boys, Salvatore, 27; Angelo, 24; Biagio, 20, the apples of his fruit dealer's eye, were holding their first joint art exhibition at Philadelphia's swank Mellon Galleries. The exhibition opened with an announcement for which most modern artists would give four sound teeth: four of the Pinto Brothers' paintings have been sold to Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the Argyrol tycoon with the big modern art museum in Merion...