Word: borgo
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Arrow-swift, a darting racing car swept over the Etruscan Appennines last week, scaled with a virile roar the heights of Monte Titano, swept into the Borgo of San Marino, oldest* and smallest† republic in the world. Behind, far behind, panted a lumbering caravan of limousines. Before they had scaled the nearly perpendicular republic, Signor Mussolini had leaped from his racer, received the respectful welcome of the two Capitani Reggenii (Regents) of San Marino. As the swaying limousines drew up, there clambered out, Signora Mussolini (Rachele Guidi), their daughter Edda, their sons Bruno and Vittorio. Round about stood...
Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo, the son of a tinman of Borgo San Sepolcro who settled in Siena, was born about 1435. He was considered the best Sienese painter of his time and may be said to have adopted the manner of Sano di Pietro and improved it by modernizing it. His ablest authentic picture, "The Virgin Entroned with Angeles" (1470) is in the Siena Academy. Matteo painted several pictures representing the "Massacre of the Innocents," two of which are still preserved. A third is in the Naples Gallery. A mosaic by him of the same subject...