Word: duomo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fewer than 10,000 of the Communist faithful clustered in Milan's vast Piazza del Duomo last week under a roof of black, rain-spattered umbrellas. The square was two-thirds empty. Soggy onlookers drifted away for hot drinks in nearby cafes. In Rome, a damp crowd sang dispiritedly in the Piazza del Popolo. A newsboy hawked the Communist newspaper: "Here's Unità. If you can't read, stand under it." The Reds' May Day show in Italy, billed in advance as the biggest & best ever, was a sodden fizzle...
...ceremonial week for art-loving Florentines. On the very same day that the city honored its most distinguished foreign citizen (see above), fishwives, shopgirls, nuns, monks and scholars jammed the Piazza del Duomo. They had come to see the reinstallation of the famed Baptistery doors of the cathedral. Sculptor Ghiberti's 15th Century doors, with their intricate panels, each like a separate, delicate canvas, for centuries had been the pride of Florence. Worthy of Paradise, Michelangelo had said, and all Florence had agreed...
...Milan a tremendous crowd of about 100,000, mobilized in the Piazza del Duomo, spent seven hours wrecking Qualunquist headquarters and rightist newspaper offices, sweeping rightist newspapers from the stands and burning them in the street. They gave the show away, however, by stoning the offices of the Saragat Socialists (antiCommunist but certainly not fascist) and finally by marching against police headquarters...
Last week shells were still whistling over the city. Its most resplendent treasures, such as Giotto's Campanile, the magnificent Duomo by Brunelleschi, might yet be wrecked or damaged...
...Badoglio Government had proclaimed martial law (TIME, Aug. 2), but the Milanese paid no heed. Report and rumor painted their temper as exuberant, mutinous. Into the great Piazza del Duomo they surged, defying the machine guns mounted in the shadow of the famed Cathedral. They hoisted anti-war placards. They stormed the Cellari jail and freed a batch of political prisoners. The soldiers of the Crown refused to fire on them. Once a column of the people, remembering the exiled maestro who would not play Giovinezza, rushed down the arcaded streets to La Scala and before the famed Opera House...