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...gods gave an Oscar to the mortal who had been most miserable during his earthly course, Italy's Poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) would be seen to have left Cassandra and Schopenhauer at the post and won in a somber canto. History is full of tragic artists, but Leopardi differs from such as Mozart and Keats in that where they were struck by tragedy while in pursuit of happiness, Leopardi was so consistently unhappy that he positively winced when he was struck...
...Christendom's greatest monuments-St. Peter's in Rome-is never quite completed. Among the best present-day artists working to finish it is a self-taught, 45-year-old sculptor from Milan named Giacomo Manzù. Four years ago, Manzù won a competition to do bronze bas-reliefs for the "Doorway of Death" (opened only for funerals) at one side of the Basilica. Now his scale study is at last complete (see cut), and he hopes that by devoting all his working time to the project he will have the doors themselves done in two more...
...tour last April through his Communist-riddled archdiocese of "Red" Emilia-a place where village churches are all but deserted and the dead are marched to the cemeteries behind the Red flag-Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro came upon a rarely heartening scene. In the piazza of Casaglia, a town near Bologna, a young Franciscan friar was haranguing a sizable crowd through a public-address system. The message he had for his workingman audience: Communism will fail because it betrays the worker...
...Giuseppe prepared to dedicate the first monument in Italy to depict Christ as a worker: a 4-by-8-ft. cement bas relief by Roman Sculptor Egidio Giaroli showing Christ as a carpenter at work with two assistants under the gaze of Mary. Bologna's famed archbishop, Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro (TIME, March 30), came to town for the ceremony...
...prison he learned to write, and in 1948 sent a letter to famed Attorney Giacomo Augenti, pleading with him to take up his case. It took Lawyer Augenti five years of briefs, depositions and oral arguments to overcome the reluctance of Italian judges to upset the verdicts of their colleagues. Last February a new trial was ordered. Carlo, now 46, grey, and suffering from tuberculosis, was brought from jail. Squinting in the bright sunlight, he marveled to see that Vesuvius no longer wore the pennant of smoke he had known until his imprisonment; nobody had told him it stopped smoking...