Word: continis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FASHION by Mila Contini. 321 pages. Odyssey. $12.95. After studying haute couture from the Pharaohs forward, Signora Contini, an Italian journalist, concludes that women dress that way to entice men. Her verdict is scarcely as edifying as the 550 illustrations, which show that nearly every current style has ancient ancestry. Nefertiti's pleated tunic would draw envious stares at a Met opening night. Roman women carried collapsible umbrellas. In 18th century France coiffures soared higher than they do in today's discotheques...
Professor Contini, leading Dante authority from the University of , will speak in Italian of " Stillstica Canto del Paradiso" at 8 p.m. tonight in Boylston Auditorium...
...Literatures will present a series of lectures in commemoration of the seventh centennial of Dante's birth. Nino Pirrotta, Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, will speak Thursday evening at 8 p.m. in Boylston Hall on "Stil Nuovo, Ars Nova." Also speaking in the series will be Gianfranco Contini, of the University of Florence and Umberto Bosco, of the University of Rome...
...hospital to be sure of getting sanitary food), Kress seemed to have only one love, his business. In reality, he had two. He read a good deal about art, was collecting in a small way before World War I. Finally, about 1920, he met the Italian collector Count Contini-Bonacossi in Rome. Kress decided on the spot that he would some day have a collection as good as the count's. Soon he was the friend of Bernard Berenson, and eventually the client of the ubiquitous Lord Duveen...