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...Vecchio, with its narrow, Tuscan-Gothic windows. At right angles stands the triple-arched Loggia dei Lanzi (named for the German lancers quartered there by the Medici), which many critics consider the most beautiful secular building in Florence. Between the two is the short, narrow street which Mannerist Painter Giorgio di Vasari created as a tour de force in perspective, leading to the Arno...
Cokes and vitamin pills. At the end, the Florence audience cheered through 17 curtain calls. After two years of mediocre Musicales, including a somewhat ragged Ring cycle last year, the May Festival had recouped its artistic losses, again ranked with the best in Europe. Said Florence's Mayor Giorgio La Pira, brushing aside news that two scheduled operas would have to be canceled because the Musicale had run out of credit: "We have no money now, but we have music...
...became mayor of Florence six years ago, bustling Giorgio La Pira summoned a city official and announced: "Your only preoccupation will be to employ for the city as many jobless as possible." When the official uneasily remarked that city funds were already overdrawn, La Pira blithely replied: "This town is dedicated to God. He never worried about money and neither shall...
True to his word, devout little Giorgio La Pira has kept Florence on the verge of municipal bankruptcy ever since and, in the process, made himself the idol of the Florentine masses. A year ago, largely on the strength of La Pira's public works, his Christian Democratic ticket won the biggest municipal vote (101,000) in Florence's history. But, unhappily for La Pira, the newly adopted proportional representation left the Christian Democrats with only 25 out of 60 seats on the municipal council. La Pira found himself obliged to strike up an unwritten alliance with...
...last week, Deputies from Milan, Naples, Rome and other cities had formed a solid pro-opera bloc. The Under Secretary of State for Spectacles withdrew his lubsidy bill and promised to submit a new, milder version. Florence's monkish Mayor Giorgio La Pira refused to sign orders laying off opera employees on the;rounds that it would require so much in severance pay that it was cheaper to keep ,hem employed. Said he: "Angels sing in perfect harmony. In paradise, nothing but music is heard. I must remind the government that in paradise the angelic chorus s not subject...