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...then, after nearly a decade in public accounting, Berman pursued graduate studies in Italian and Italian literature. Her literary work includes a translation of Citta del Sole, a major Italian text from the seventeenth century, according to the Harvard Gazette...
...like one dated 1946, are not Utopias: there is little of Mondrian's austere, architectonic rectitude in them. They are sociable, warm, busy and a bit sloppy. They stand to the more purist kinds of geometrical abstraction as the plan of a hill town does to a Renaissance citta ideale. But they do supply the underpinning on which nearly all Cavallon's later work is based-a firmly cubist structure, distantly suggestive of fields, porticoes or rooms, veiled in strong white light...
...sexy Bitter Rice, starring Sylvana Mangano, who became his wife, that made Dino his first fortune. He used the money to build Dino Citta, his film studio in Rome. Thereafter he plunged big on spectacles like War and Peace and The Bible; tides of money ebbed and flowed. Four years ago, he moved his operations to the U.S. The reason: "I begin to sniff trouble in Italia. I no like what I smell in the politics or the economy." He now says that his only mistake was not moving a decade earlier. "No other country makes room for foreigners...
...principal executives of Florence; but in 1301 he met with a political disaster. The French marched on Florence and established Dante's enemies in power. Condemned in absentia to death by burning, Dante for the last 20 years of his life wandered in exile from the "bella citta" he loved. Most of his political colleagues sooner or later won remission of exile, but Dante proudly refused to compromise his principles and drifted drearily through Italy, learning...
Uneasy Virtue. Now married to Italian Director-Producer Mario Lanfranchi (who originally signed her for Butterfly), Diva Moffo lives in an apartment in Milan, collects jazz records as an antidote to a steady opera diet. With her husband as lyricist, she writes pop songs, one of which, Citta, became an instant hit when she sang it on Italian TV ("Always, my city Your aroma is like a garden without flowers Like a tear...