Word: della
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special importance lay in the fact that he knew how to navigate the Fascist stratosphere. When Boss Venturi went to Rome (as head of one of the seven divisions of the Ministry of Corporations), S. K. followed him. In Rome he was introduced to Rome's exclusive Circolo della Caccia (Hunt Club), where Count Ciano gave most of his political dinners. Soon S. K. carried a guest card. At the Hunt Club he met Count Roberto Pinelli, member of the undersecretariat of the Ministry of War. S. K. and Pinelli discovered "a mutual enthusiasm for the writings of Thomas...
...Italian count (who likes to be called Mr.), debonair Giovanni Naselli. Born in Manhattan 45 years ago, and hence a U.S. citizen, the count is no Fascist although he spent about ten years making rayon and lire in the Rome branch of the huge Società Generate Italiana della Viscosa, a world leader in cheap rayon manufacture. In 1933 he went to Mexico City, there started his own rayon twisting plant, Cia. Nacional de Artisela. S.A., whose 25,000 spindles now twist 60% of Mexico's rayon yarn and make it the world's No. 2 exclusively rayon...
...year. He spends some of his time giving young couples advice about marriage. But his chief occupation is designing scientific sculptures of the female body to teach laymen about birth control, pregnancy, female disorders. In his exhibit last week he displayed his popular "Birth Prelude" -a plaque of dimpled, della Robbia-like babies in terra cotta, showing the growth of a fetus from conception to birth. With characteristic Dickinsonian whimsey, the largest fetus holds the tiniest one in his hand. Another pair of plaques showed graphically how a child is fed in its mother's womb...
When invective is the ammunition, Italy is quick to fire. The press accused Britain of breaking explicit agreements not to use chemical warfare. The dropping of the phosphorus calling cards was the signal, said Corriere della Sera of Milan, "of a new method of offensive to which fit reply must be given." Benito Mussolini's Popolo d'ltalia echoed ominously with a new version of the Mosaic law: "Two eyes for one, two teeth for one, and so on until they cry, 'Enough...
After that Aretino began working the nobility. The crooked Marquis of Mantua, violent Giovanni della Bande Nere became patrons and friends. Then through miscalculating some smart moves he was nearly murdered, moved to Venice for safety. He spent the rest of his life there. Emperor Charles V and the Doge were among his patrons. He spent his cadgings bottomlessly on himself, on poor people, and on the women and artist bums who swarmed his house. He tirelessly promoted his friend Titian; managed, by two extraordinary letters, to scare Francis I out of an alliance with Turkey; quarreled with everyone from...