Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most versatile painting family in Italian history was the Carracci of 16th century Bologna, two brothers and a cousin who burst on the post-Renaissance scene as tireless and talented jacks-of-all-styles. Singly or together, they could turn out madonnas with Raphael's angelic sweetness, turbulent figures that writhed in Michelangelesque contortions, landscapes as peaceful as Giorgione's, plus a wealth of portraits, murals, ceiling decorations, caricatures. Their proud boast was that by borrowing from the best of the Renaissance masters they avoided becoming the followers of any one, instead were the equals...
...huge bell atop Florence's Palazzo Vecchio pealed tumultuously one night last week, sending cheering Florentines into the streets to celebrate a victory over Roman bureaucracy and a triumph for local art and tourism. The Italian government, which had assembled 33 Italian masterpieces* for a good-will tour of Washington's National Gallery and Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, had bowed to the storm of protest from Italians who wanted their treasures kept right at home, suspended plans to send the show abroad until scientific tests could be made to guarantee that no harm would come...
...Florentine tempest began blowing up when Italian newspapers, with the sinking of the Andrea Doria fresh in mind, pointed out in alarm that Florence's treasures would be shipped to the U.S. aboard a U.S. Navy transport. Additional qualms were quickly forthcoming. Asked Corriere delta Sera: "Who knows what effect the humidity may have on these paintings, and the packing, the unpacking, the vibrations on shipboard, the handling in America-all grave dangers...
Florentine artists and students took the protest into the streets and the Italian press, from Communist left to Fascist right, whooped to their support. The climax came when four artists barricaded themselves in the bare cell atop Florence's 280-ft.-tall Tower of Arnulfo, announced that they would not come down until the government surrendered...
...title means "the big calves" in Italian, but it is perhaps most idiomatically translated as "the slobs." The slobs in question are the sons of some middle-class families in a small city in Italy. In body they are full-grown males, but at heart they are just big bambini. Though finished with school, they cannot quite bring themselves to take jobs. Supported by indulgent families, they sleep till noon, spend the rest of the day at the poolroom or on the beach, talking about girls they seldom get or wishing they were somewhere far away. Sometimes, there is nothing...