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From the days of the Medici, Florence has been a city of treasures that every eye could see. In one direction was a chapel by Michelangelo, in another a dome by Brunelleschi; here was a bronze door by Ghiberti, there a statue by Donatello. But these were only a part of Florence's great legacy...
...pyramid-topped oratory, the church and its curvilinear chapel (which Corbusier calls "the rock" and the monks, despite his protests, call "the ear"), there are no statues. "There will be no distraction from images," Corbu told the monks. "If you want to be good fellows and show some friendship for your poor devil of an architect, you can do it by formally refusing every gift of stained glass, or images, or statues, which kill everything...
...extracted the last yard of mileage out of their hyphens as they joined forces-Fascist and Communist-dedicated to the destruction of aristocracy. Boud, before she met Hitler, insisted on taking her pet rat to debutante balls. With Philip Toynbee (Historian Arnold's son), Decca raided Eton College chapel and decamped with a carload of top hats...
...most international frontiers. Before Easter, for instance, the Roman Catholics, who claim the privilege of cleaning the outside of the windows, make a demonstration of standing by and watching while the Greek Orthodox-who also claim the privilege-actually do the cleaning. The Armenian Apostolic Church still claims the Chapel of Nicodemus, now used by the Syrian Orthodox, though the Armenians declare they have the keys. At least three violent incidents have resulted-once over the repairing of one of the doors, once over the possession of a closet, once over the chapel's whitewashing...
Jesuit Edmund Campion was "cruelly distent" on the rack, and his fingernails were pulled out before he was executed. For permitting Mass to be said in her private chapel. Catholic Convert Margaret Clitherow was pressed to death and, according to a witness, "was in dying one-quarter of an hour. A sharp stone as much as a man's fist was put under her back; upon her was laid the quantity of seven or eight hundredweight at the least, which breaking her ribs caused them to burst through her skin.'' Altogether, from 1585 to 1680, about...