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...these black men to the steps of the Capitol in peace, in spirit, in love was rhetorically taxed by the media and politicians. White America should be so lucky as to have a leader who could bring a million of its men together to atone for their transgressions. ROBERT CORSINI Los Angeles
...heart was in Rome, wandering its ruins. In 1745 he managed to get back there for good as agent for a Venetian printmaker. He married the daughter of Prince Corsini's gardener, who brought him a small dowry that proved enough to let him start his major work on Roman antiquities. In it he looked on Rome's neglected ruins with the eye of a romantic and the knowledge of an engineer...
...that narrow chamber? Dal Poggetto has a theory. In 1527 the Medici, who had virtually become kings, were expelled from Florence by a wave of republican sentiment. When the Medici resumed their grip on the city in 1530, a purge of republicans followed, and a cutthroat named Alessandro Corsini was hired to murder Michelangelo-who had vocally sided with the republican cause. According to an old tradition, the great sculptor, who was then at work on the Medici tombs, hid in the bell tower of a church on the other side of the Arno. But ten years ago, a memoir...
...dealing took place in a meeting of the Group of Ten rich industrial nations, held at Rome's Palazzo Corsini, principally in a conference room decorated with Renaissance paintings of voluptuous nudes. At midweek the Finance Ministers and central bankers of the Ten shooed their aides out of the room and began talking numbers-just how many pounds, francs, marks, yen and lire a dollar should be able to buy. They did not fully agree, and they did not even begin to settle some basic controversies over tariff, farm, investment and defense policies (see box next page). But then...
...Some of its attributions (made by the late Roberto Longhi) are, in the delicate language of art historians, "optimistic." In the view of some Italian experts the collection ranks some distance after other private and far older collections-those of the Doria, Colonna and Pallavicini families in Rome, the Corsini and Serristori in Florence and the Cini family in Venice. Still, Professor Mario Salmi, vice president of the Consiglio Superiore delle Antichità e Belle Arti, says firmly: "It is undoubtedly the finest private collection of Italian Gothic and Renaissance art made after 1900 in Italy...