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Inevitably, the gang fell apart. Gino became a pervert and ended his life in jail. Carlo scrambled off to fight in Ethiopia and died for II Duce. Giorgio, the leader, became an antiFascist; it was he who taught Valerio that life meant more than the flashy nihilism of the Blackshirts...
...GIORGIO MORANDI, 62, who won international attention when he took first prize for painting at Venice's 1948 Biennale. One of Italy's favorite parlor painters...
Illustrious Name. The actual party leaders are no fiery Mussolinis but a couple of unexciting Fascist wheelhorses: Giorgio Almirante, head of the five-man M.S.I, bloc in the Chamber of Deputies, a thin, drab man with ferret eyes and a receding chin which he remembers to thrust out periodically; Secretary Augusto de Marsanich, who dotes on being remembered as one of the original squadristi who ''marched" on Rome...
...execution to celebrate the sooth anniversary of his birth. A children's choir sang. Nuns convoyed little girls in white dresses who sprinkled flowers where the scaffold once stood. At night, drummers in medieval costume led processions of torch-bearing students past the flower-decked plaque. Orated Mayor Giorgio la Pira, a Christian Democrat: "Fra Girolamo Savonarola characterized Florence . . . as a firm guardian of the spirit of political liberty and as an eternal expression of fraternity and loving-kindness between...
Subtlety & Superiority. One critic who saw nothing strange about the Mono, Lisa was the 16th century's Giorgio Vasari, who praised the painting for its naturalism. "In this head," Vasari wrote, "every peculiarity that could be depicted by the utmost subtlety of the pencil has been faithfully reproduced . . . Mona Lisa was exceedingly beautiful, and while Leonardo was painting her portrait, he took the precaution of keeping someone constantly near her, to ... amuse her, to the end that she might continue cheerful...