Word: bonacossi
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...Germanic peoples, the Italians built their palaces with austere exteriors, content to have the opulence displayed within. But for the past 15 years, the Palazzo Capponi has defended from public gaze a greater treasure than most. Locked up there was the collection amassed by the late Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi. No outsider knew exactly what it contained and the only people with access to it were the dead count's heirs and a handful of their friends...
...importance of the works. Part of the dissent is ideological. The count's title was bestowed on him by Mussolini after he made a politic gift of several statues and other art objects to the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome. Part is sheer Italian snobbery. Contini-Bonacossi was the son of peasants, who made his fortune in South America by methods that are still muffled in obscurity. When he returned to Florence, he set himself up as an art dealer and put his collection together between...
...Snow, is arguably the greatest surviving work by this unprolific Sienese master and worth, according to a spokesman at Christie's, "about $1,500,000." But it was stolen 60 years ago from the high altar of the church at Chiusi, near Siena, and purchased later by Contini-Bonacossi...
...hospital to be sure of getting sanitary food), Kress seemed to have only one love, his business. In reality, he had two. He read a good deal about art, was collecting in a small way before World War I. Finally, about 1920, he met the Italian collector Count Contini-Bonacossi in Rome. Kress decided on the spot that he would some day have a collection as good as the count's. Soon he was the friend of Bernard Berenson, and eventually the client of the ubiquitous Lord Duveen...
...current Prince Orsini is 37-year-old Filippo Napoleone, who replenished the declining fortunes of his house by marrying Franca Bonacossi, a provincial sugar-beet heiress from Padua. Franca, a woman of ambitious piety, filled her home with cardinals, bishops, monsignors and assorted clergy, urged that her husband be appointed Prince Assistant to the Pope in place of his father (who had been disqualified when he married a U.S. divorcee). She succeeded. But stocky, handsome Filippo Napoleone was bored by cardinals as dinner guests. He preferred to drink cocktails and talk to pretty girls in nightclubs. He never went home...
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