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...prized Sacco (Sack) paintings called Umbria Vera. At the time of his death in 1995, Burri's most famous pieces, including the Sacks and Plastics series, could be found in modern art museums in London, New York, Venice and, most proudly for the artist, in his hometown of Città di Castello in the foothills of central Italy's Apennine mountain range. But today, the town of Città di Castello - and part of Italy's art establishment - is in turmoil, because a large cache of Burri's work is missing. The 15th century palazzo that houses much...
Even anticlerical observers in Rome admit, rather glumly, that John Paul has galvanized Italian Catholics, especially the young. Says Cesare Pagani, Bishop of Città di Castello: "The arrival of Pope Wojtyla has turned our youth upside down. They are taking over the leadership of the young again to advance not only the ecclesiastical but the civil life of our country...
...City's success not only made money. It stirred Italy's moviemakers into a frenzy of activity which has put Italy second only to Hollywood as the major supplier of films to the U.S. and the world. On the 14 sound stages of Rome's Cine-città., Europe's biggest studio, and in smaller studios scattered from Turin to Palermo, Italy's 180 producers are shoot ing an alltime record of 120 films, ten more than last year. And for the first time they are ready to exploit the U.S. beach head opened...
...custom of reading newspapers in the middle of the street. Once, interrupted in his meditations by a horn insistently honking in the Piazza Venezia below, Mussolini shouted an order that all "acoustic signaling" be forthwith prohibited in Rome. Romans whispered sadly that their "city of noise" had become the città del silenzio...
...This tiresome betrothal of mine with Francesco della Rovere! And you're still not lord of Città del Monte. Six months to wait-six months at least! Perdition...
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