Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vaulted hall of Florence's Palazzo Strozzi, one day last week, art scholars and critics from all over the world were waiting. Through a tiny oaken door stepped a frail, bearded little man, Bernhard Berenson, the world's greatest authority on Italian Renaissance art. Bobbing and nodding his white beard to the ovation, he hurried, with staccato steps, to the center of a long table. There, Italy's Minister of Education Guido Gonella presented him with two bronze medals, one four centuries old, the other struck especially in his honor. After the minister's speech, cheers...
...authority respected above all others. Millionaire collectors have sought him out for merely an approving nod of some new purchase-and paid well for the nod. His theories on tactile values have become a part of the stock in trade of art experts and connoisseurs. His meticulous researches into Italian masters have influenced a whole generation's tourist guides and scholars' volumes...
...spent as it began -reading, writing and receiving visitors. At 10 he dresses and goes into his magnificent 40,000-volume library ("It's open to all, even those many who speak ill of me"). Later, there are simple, fastidious luncheons, served on fine Italian embroidered mats; teas, and candlelit dinners. At all these, a rug thrown over his knees (for he is always cold), Il Bibi holds forth in several languages on art or literature or politics. His cutting opinions make their appointed rounds, at other teas and dinners, for days after...
Churchmen of all faiths were beginning to suspect that the movement toward a united Protestantism might paradoxically increase the scandal of Christian disunity by making the cleavage between Protestant and Catholic sharper than ever. But others, like Italian Waldensian Leader Jean Gonnet, felt that the Vatican would be just as happy about the Protestant movement toward unity as the most ecumenically minded Protestant. Said Professor Gonnet: "Rome is well pleased to see other Christians marching towards unity, because in her opinion this will inevitably lead to a return to the fold under one sole shepherd-the Pope...
...picture of the little eight-year-old Italian boy learning to read Braille with his nose and lips [TIME, June 7] should help to rouse fortunate Americans to their duty to send aid to the children of Europe...