Word: carrara
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...with mask and air cylinder. Often the bottom of the sea is a desert with nothing to show that man has ever sailed over it, but sometimes an encrusted object looks somehow suspicious to Diolé's well-educated eye. Diolé investigates. He finds a chunk of Carrara marble or a graceful jar that was intended to carry syrupy wine to some homesick outpost near the Pillars of Hercules. Or he finds a forgotten concrete jetty built by Roman engineers to protect the harbor of a busy city that is now a fishing village...
Paolo would rather go home to Carrara and get back to work. The son of a successful sculptor whose wife's family owns some marble quarries, Paolo has been drawing since he can remember. At five he was copying animals out of children's books, putting together weird composites, later ducked school to ramble around the countryside drawing whatever caught his fancy. He took no art lessons, shunned all advice. "He would never listen to me," says his father, Aldo Buttini. Instead, Paolo read art books and tramped through museums soaking up the masters' techniques...
...tried sculpture, turned out amazingly good busts of angelic children. But he soon tired of carving and went back to pen & ink drawings with single-minded attention. Outside art, his main pleasures are horseback riding and, latterly, whippeting around the Tuscan hills in a Fiat. Once during the war, Carrara was shelled and his family hid out for two months in a hillside cave. Paolo spent his time profitably, carving pictures on the walls, caveman style...
When he gets back to Carrara, Paolo Buttini plans to try a new medium. He thinks he is about ready to start working in oils. In about two years, Paolo thinks, "I will really have something to show people...
...Ligurian coast Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army thrust for the old naval-base town of La Spezia. Working a pincers, the 442nd Regiment (Japanese-Americans) and the 473rd Regiment (Negroes) cleared enemy defenses around the famed marble center of Carrara. Italian Partisan units swarmed out of caves and quarries to help the troops capture the village...