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...Virgil as an humiliated lover, suspended in a basket from his mistress' window. This appeared, in varying forms, from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, everywhere with a local colour of its own. Scarcely less widespread was the story that Virgil had devised an ingenious lie detector, the bocca della verita, in the form of an animal's head which bit off the finger of anyone guilty of falsehood...
...celebrate the village's patron saint and include concerts, processions and evening illuminations. The society of San Giueppe di Riesi will celebrate July 28-30 and that of San Giuseppe di Pietra on Aug. 4-6. Others who have not yet set a date are those of Maria Santissima della Cava di Pletraperzia, San Calegro di Sciacca and the Madonna di Anzano...
...Piero della Francesca," Professor Post, Fogg Large Room...
...that interest in their works. The arrogance and strength of the Renaissance prince speaks in Verrocchio's Giuliano dei Medici, the refinement and culture of the day, in Desiderio's Giovanna degli Albizzi. The mystic, contemplative personality is portrayed in Donatello's St. John, and, in the Madonna that della Robbia has set against an infinite blue sky, we have the religious sincerity that survived the enthusiasm for pagan culture. The typical Italian devotion to children is nowhere more delightfully shown than in Desiderio's portrait...
...only the most important pieces in a collection which is rounded out, however, by representative works by lesser personalities: I may mention as worthy of the visitor's attention two characteristic marbles by Donatello's follower Antonio Rossellino, an idealized St. Sebastian by Civitali, three typical terra-cottas by della Robbia, and, among the North Italians, the sharply outlined profiles of the Storzas by Amadeo, and Riccio's Entombment with the figures clad in classical garments...