Word: giorgio
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...than Fra Angelico. So completely did the man and artist live within his monastic cowl and robe, effacing himself within the disciplines of monastic life, that his early life, training and personality are only guesswork. He left no written record of his own. His biographer, Painter-Historian Giorgio Vasari, wrote nearly a century after Fra Angelico's death...
...Fletcher alumnus, Giorgio Pagnanelli, a counsel for the Italian Lines in New York, said last night that he has already visited President Wessel, whom students believe to be the principal figure in Tufts' new policy toward Fletcher...
...rainy day when Florence's Mayor Giorgio La Pira was a Deputy in Rome, he characteristically started for the door without umbrella, overcoat, or hat. A fellow Deputy insisted on lending him a raincoat. An hour later, La Pira returned, dripping from head to foot. To the astonished Deputy, he explained: "I came across an old man in the street who was cold . . ." "Yes," stammered the Deputy, "but that was my raincoat." La Pira replied soothingly: "You can buy another, my son, you can buy another...
Last week Giorgio la Pira turned his attention to the plight of about 115 workers in the creaky Delle Cure Foundry on the outskirts of Florence, which makes pipe and other cast-iron products. Since it was started in 1933, in a dingy, damp building now 87 years old, the foundry has limped along, losing money most of the time. Its equipment is ancient and its labor force, since World War II, has always been too big. In 1952 the owners went bankrupt, automatically closing shop...
...legality of Giorgio's requisition was, to put it mildly, highly dubious. As justification for it, Lawyer la Pira cited an 1865 law empowering requisition in case of disaster, and a similar clause in the present constitution-ignoring the fact that the intent in both cases was for the national government to take over, not a municipality. Communists uttered cheers and huzzahs, the right-wing Socialists passed a resolution of approval, and Tuscany's industrialists, who hate La Pira, denounced him. La Pira might gain more popularity, they sputtered, but he had achieved it by adding one more...