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...chapel was built by Enrico Scrovegni to atone for the crimes of his father, a notorious usurer, and in 1303 Giotto was commissioned to decorate it. He covered the interior with a fresco narrative of the lives of Jesus and his mother, adding figures of the Virtues and Vices and a Last Judgment. "Giotto was a genius," says Professor Giuseppe Basile of Rome's Central Restoration Institute, who oversaw the restoration. "He planned the location of scenes to fit the chapel's architecture precisely. He developed a form of perspective. His figures had natural movements and expressions. The stories themselves...
...news in Italy, where the state broadcaster's board - as well as top newsroom posts and even minor acting jobs - have long been divvied up as political spoils among the factions of both the ruling coalition and opposition. "Most Italians see it as just one conflict among many," said Enrico Mentana, who for 10 years has been the director and anchor of Mediaset's leading nightly news broadcast...
...Deputy Chief of Police Enrico C. Cappucci said, “We are aware of the stabbing, but things have been extremely quiet on campus...
...salotto buono, "good drawing room," was held together largely through the shrewd deals put together by Enrico Cuccia, the legendary head of Mediobanca who died last year. As a result of rather Byzantine legislation, Mediobanca was Italy's only merchant bank for decades, which meant virtually no big deals were done without Cuccia. But by the late 1990s, the Cuccia-Agnelli alliance began falling apart. Mediobanca sided with Colaninno when he and his wealthy backers made their move for Telecom Italia. It was a direct challenge to the Agnellis, who had installed their own man to run the former state...
...finance, to provide medium-term credit to industry during postwar reconstruction. Mediobanca steadily built relation- ships and acquired shares, winning seats in the county's top boardrooms. By the 1980s, it was said that practically any deal in Italy needed the blessing of the bank's politically savvy chairman, Enrico Cuccia. A so-called Northern Galaxy - including Trieste-based insurance giant Assicurazioni Generali, BCI, and Florentine insurer La Fondiaria - revolved around Cuccia's office behind La Scala opera house. Fiat was long regarded as an ally. That extraordinary power has been chipped away over the past 10 years. After European...