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...younger French artists, including the 28-year-old Corot, who was on the verge of departing for Italy. Today it's hard to imagine the delicious feelings of initiation and surrender with which foreign artists once went to Italy. Each view in Rome, every corner of Naples or Latium, seemed impregnated with meaning--by the memory of artists who had painted them before, by the presence of Antiquity and by the mellow beauty of the light. But to see Nature so authoritatively fused with Culture could also be a misery for a newcomer, for how could you say something...
...visitors to Italy this Christmas may get a strong sense of it from an exhibition organized at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome to mark the end of the Holy Year. Entitled "Treasures of Sacred Art," it has been culled from normally inaccessible church collections in Rome and nearby Latium. eluded in brilliant array are coffers, crosses, monstrances, ostensoria, chalices, candlesticks, vestments...
According to the historians of antiquity, Rome was founded by the brothers Romulus and Remus as a hangout for the delinquent youth of early Iron Age Latium, and was given permanence by the rape of 527 Sabine women. The traditional founding date is April 21, 753 B.C.-but the historians have long been fidgety about the exactness of that anniversary. Last week modern Rome's Department of Antiquities and Fine Arts showed proof that Rome had inhabitants several hundred years before the Romulus mob ever touched a Sabine woman...
...only private farm lands were seized. Near the much-bombed village of Monte Libretti, the Government owned a 2,000-hectare farm for breeding and training army mounts, and for the general improvement of horses in Latium. The farm caught the eye of Crispino Ottavi, Communist president of the Monte Libretti Labor Federation. Ottavi is a tall, immensely powerful man, with big boxer's arms. He wears outsize brown riding boots, checked breeches, U.S. Army sweaters. He has a sunburnt bull neck, small, calculating, brown eyes set in a network of humorous wrinkles. For Monte Libretti's poor...
Wailed one of his French critics: "He compared the shepherds of primitive Latium to the shepherds of Texas; the ancient Romans to the Boers; the Roman electoral body to the cosmopolitan demagogy of the United States; Rome itself to London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Milan; and Lucullus to Napoleon. He talks about capitalism, parliamentarism, imperialism, feminism . . . clubs, meetings, high life. . . . Cato is a landlord; M. Aemilius Scaurus a self-made man; Caesar a socialist leader, a Tammany boss...