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...names of its militant warlords, the Visconti and the Sforza, sent chills down the spine of Italy. But in art, Milan has always been looked down upon as a poor cousin by such sophisticated citadels as Venice and Florence. Even today most tourists take a look at the towered Duomo (second largest cathedral in Italy), seek out the faded mural remains of The Last Supper (painted by an imported Florentine, Leonardo da Vinci) at Santa Maria delle Grazie, and hurry on to Siena, Bologna or Rome...
...eight: The Tempest, Female Nude, Three Philosophers, the Giustiniani Portrait, the Enthroned Madonna from the Duomo of Castelfranco, Laura, Tramonto, and the Louvre's Country Feast (TIME...
...apartment of that palace. On the Venetian cloister of San Francesco del Deserto, where some of the monastery sequences were made, the light falls slow and bright as dust from a celestial censer. The swordplay between Romeo and Tybalt flashes through Siena's gracious Piazza del Duomo. When Romeo in the last act beats with unavailing hands at the church door, he strikes the great bronze portal, green and inscrutable, of San Zeno Maggiore at Verona...
From time immemorial it has been the custom, on those days, for the poor people of Benevento to hire out their sons, twelve years and up, to farmers seeking cheap labor. The children are brought to the Piazza del Duomo, where they wait while their parents bargain. The farmers take a look at the boys, sometimes test a muscle, go back to bargaining. For a promising boy they will pay the parents 6,000 lire (about $10) and a few bushels of wheat for a year's work. When the bargain is struck, the boy goes...
...activists patrolled the gates of the huge Breda steel plant and other factories, barred workers from entering. Others stopped the city's trams. One group burst into the office of Mayor Antonio Greppi (a right-wing Socialist), demanded that he address a mass meeting in the Piazza del Duomo, as he had done on a similar occasion in 1947. At that moment the phone rang. It was the prefect of Milan, sternly reminding the mayor of the ban on public assemblies. When Greppi told the Red delegation, "No meeting is authorized," he was vilified as a "coward and traitor...