Word: ferrara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popeyed, bushy-haired little man had scarcely raised his baton to signal the opening of the piano concerto's slow movement when he paled and swayed on the podium. Soloist Vera Franceschi swiftly signaled the sound engineers to stop the recording. Then she helped Conductor Franco Ferrara to a chair, plied him with black coffee. Ten minutes later he rapped the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome to silence, led them the rest of the way through a singing recording of Ildebrando Pizzetti's Canti della Stagione Alta...
...High Heart. In Ferrara, Italy, Carlo Bonuzzi, 30, flew over the town in a small plane, showered it with multicolor leaflets which read: "Dear Friends and Citizens: By sending you greetings from this plane, I wish to demonstrate that even if I have been abandoned by my wife, I do not worry about it and keep on being amused...
...great Renaissance painter and mathematician, Piero della Francesca (circa 1418-92). Legend has it that Piero was a fatherless boy who took the name of his mother Francesca. He studied at Florence, returned to Borgo San Sepolcro to get his first major commission, traveled through Italy painting in Rimini, Ferrara, Rome, Arezzo and Urbino, then settled down to spend his last 14 years in his native town compiling two mathematical treatises. Latterday Sansepolcrans prided themselves on owning three of Piero's major works, and kept alive the hope that more would one day come to light...
...FRANCESCO GONZAGA, FOURTH MARQUIS OF MANTUA, by Ferrara's ERCOLE ROBERTI, imprisons a princely child in a formal 15th century portrait without robbing him of boyishness. (The Samuel H. Kress Collection...
...official digging, and police are frustrating the free lancers. Spina, the mother lode of the treasure, has not yet been found. Perhaps it lies under the mud not far away. There is a rumor that Professor Arias knows where it is, but is keeping mum. Sophisticates in nearby Ferrara do not believe this. "When Spina is found," they say, "the Comacchiesi will find...