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...Look of a Leg. In time, the collection ranges from a 14th century silver point* miniature drawing of an elephant and a mouse by an anonymous artist to works of the Goyaesque Felice Giani, who died in Rome in 1823 after an artistic career that included decorating the apartments in the Tuileries for Josephine Bonaparte. In scope, the collection runs from Paolo Uccello's geometric sketch of the 32 surfaces of the mazzocchio, a circular wicker framework used by Florentines as a base for their characteristic cloth headpieces, to an intricately executed sketch by Artist-Author Giorgio Vasari (Lives...
Head recruiter for the Balilla in the U. S., charged Mr. Valenti, is one Professor Mario Giani, U. S. director of the Dante Alighieri Society, Government-supported Italian cultural and propaganda agency. Mr. Giani, whose office is in the headquarters of the Italian consulate in Manhattan, has as assistant recruiters, according to Mr. Valenti, Italian consuls, teachers in some U. S. colleges and public schools, pro-Fascist Catholic priests...