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...with some modifications, from Provence. With the Provencal style came the Provencal subject: the cult of courtly love and the service of the lady fair. In Dante's life the lady fair was Beatrice. A 14th century biographer reports, not altogether reliably, that she was a daughter of Folco Portinari, a Florentine nobleman, and that she looked like "a little angel." Dante, the account continues, met Beatrice when he was nine and she was eight, and he swore to love her forever. On the evidence of his poetry, he adored her from a distance. But the affair was nevertheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man for the Ages | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...they often portend, ekes out his boredom by cadging bliss at a local refreshment booth (Vera Clouzot). Jo (Charles Vanel), a career thug who fears nothing he can get his hairy hands on and thinks he can get them on everything, hops spiderishly from plot to pointless plot. Luigi (Folco Lulli) is a big warm country boy from Italy, so stupid (as Mario sees him) that he works for a living. Bimba (Peter Van Eyck) is a graduate of a Nazi concentration camp, a German as hard as such an education can make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

Broad Jump, 3.30 o'clock. Italian Entries: Folco Guglielmi. American Entries: Edward Calvin, '35 Harvard; Milton Greene, 3GB Harvard; Oscar Sutermeister, 3SA, Harvard; Stanley Johnson, M.I.T.; Bernie Lewis, Brown; O'Leary, B.C.; Don Rodman, Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HANDICAP GIVEN TO CONTESTANTS WITH BECCALI IN THE 1500 | 10/5/1934 | See Source »

...Meters Relay (man running 100 meters). Italian Entries: Ulrico Di Blas, Folco Gugliclmi, Nino Larocchi, Tullio Gonnelli. American Entries: Eddie Calvin, '35 Harvard; Edward Cady, B. C.; John McManus, B. C.; John Joyce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HANDICAP GIVEN TO CONTESTANTS WITH BECCALI IN THE 1500 | 10/5/1934 | See Source »

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