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...Signed) Giovanna di Savoia (Signed) Boris di Bulgaria...
...surprising to find that the Italian sculptors represented in the Fogg Museum have mirrored the multiple facets of that interest in their works. The arrogance and strength of the Renaissance prince speaks in Verrocchio's Giuliano dei Medici, the refinement and culture of the day, in Desiderio's Giovanna degli Albizzi. The mystic, contemplative personality is portrayed in Donatello's St. John, and, in the Madonna that della Robbia has set against an infinite blue sky, we have the religious sincerity that survived the enthusiasm for pagan culture. The typical Italian devotion to children is nowhere more delightfully shown than...
...touched with sadness, that animates the face of youth. Another piece by Desiderio, a relief of the Madonna and Child, shows the same exquisite sense of surface texture and a capable realization of form in the planes of low relief. The rich color of the aristocratic bust of Giovanna degli Albizzi adds warmth and life to the characteristic delicacy of the features...
...Black Shirts in Umbria presented to King Boris of Bulgaria on the occasion of his marriage [to Princess Giovanna of Italy] a simple, brightly polished dagger, taken from the regular arms depot of the Fascist Militia. How full of symbolical significance is this severe and lofty gift...
...intransigeant about the conditions and precautions prescribed by" Roman Catholic Church law. Pius XI has been considering such an encyclical on mixed marriages for some time. What prompted its preparation now was the recent "scandalous" remarriage of Bulgarian (Eastern) Orthodox Tsar Boris of Bulgaria and Roman Catholic Princess Giovanna of Italy. They contracted, in Italy, to rear all their children as Catholics, despite Bulgarian law which requires that the King be Orthodox, and went through a Catholic marriage ceremony at Assisi, Italy. It poured that day. In thunder, lightning and rain they left Italy for Sofia. Storms lashed their ship...