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...restoration laboratories and storage areas and much of the work on the ground floor of the Uffizi Galleries was also destroyed. Among the works lost are some by Giotto, Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Masaccio and Simone Martin. The photo library and archives were completely destroyed as well, although 130,000 negatives--covered with oil and thought irretrievably lost -- are now in the process of restoration with the help of Harvard restorers...
...TEMPTATION or DR. ANTONIO (Fellini ) thumbs the well-worn psychological text that outward prudishness masks inward prurience. Prim, black-suited Dr. Antonio (Peppino de Filippo) is a self-constituted one-man vice squad who sees signs of obscenity everywhere. One sign that puts him into a puritanical dither is a huge billboard featuring a slinkily gowned, reclining platinum blonde who holds a mammoth glass of milk in her hand and endorses the consumption of that beverage. "Take her down," says Dr. Antonio to snickering city officials and discreet church fathers. One night, as Dr. Antonio tramps obsessively around the sign...
Futurism got its name from the Italian Poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who in 1909 issued a flamboyant manifesto calling for a new philosophy of art suitable to the age of the machine. Not Pegasus, he declared, but the racing car, "with its hood draped with exhaust pipes like fire-breathing serpents," should be the new symbol of poetry. "A racing car, rattling along like a machine gun, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace." The artist should "sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and boldness...
...Annunzio's style, which according to Rhodes was "like that of Venetian glass, redundant and stuffed with reminiscences of Greek and Roman splendor. pseudo-Biblical, pseudomystical." A whole generation of Italian youth accepted his vision of life as an opera with bogus lyrics but real swords. Filippo Marinetti, founder and chief exhibitionist of the crackpot futurist cult (he later proposed kidnaping Pope Benedict XV in an airplane and dropping him into the Adriatic), hailed D'Annunzio as "the prodigious seducer, the ineffable descendant of Casanova and Cagliostro...
...Doria male line was broken last year with the death of Prince Filippo Andrea Doria-Pamphili-Landi, 71. The old prince was the only man in Rome who refused to put out a flag celebrating Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia, suffered 15 years' confinement under Mussolini, was Rome's first mayor after its liberation. He dreamed of opening his palace to the public, a task that his daughter, Princess Orietta, has now accomplished. Her husband, Britisher Frank Pogson, has traded his own name for Doria-Pamphili to carry on the noble line...