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...Going, going, gone!" echoed a thousand times through the vast marble interiors of Venice's 17th century Palazzo Labia last week. Going, going, gone was another vestige of Venetian elegance, knocked down by the gondola-load to smaller-than-life nobodies representing Swiss antique dealers, dubious shops on Madison Avenue, secretive European and American collectors, and doubtless some ambassadors from small countries, intent on robbing Italy's art treasures via the diplomatic pouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Party's Over | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...lush old 18th Century, when Venice was all the world's nightclub, the best parties of all were thrown at the Renaissance-style Palazzo Labia, just off the Grand Canal. To avoid the clatter of dishwashing at his fancier banquets, Host Labia frequently ordered his soiled gold tableware chucked into the canal at the end of each course. (The ugly gossip was that he had laid a stout fish net on the canal bottom beforehand.) The Labias and their dinnerware have long since passed into oblivion, but last week the Labia palace was all lit up again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Big Party | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Maraventano freed the obscured clitoris-like penis, closed up the vagina-like introitus, moved the testicle into a scrotal sac formed from the labia majora. Then he made a canal in the freed penis. After the surgery was completed, a series of treatments with testosterone, the male sex hormone, followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Man | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Vina manandi per labia cara...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRILOGIA HARVARDINI. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

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