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...wrenched by other forces within this broad pressure pattern. It is being pinched from the west by the Eurasian plate and from the east by a subdivision of the African plate known as the Apulian. Presumably, strains from these opposing forces caused the Italian quake. Says Florence-born Seismologist Leonardo Seeber, now at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory: "In Italy we are even worse off, in that we understand very little about the tectonics there...
There was a time when the 33,000-ton passenger liner Leonardo da Vinci was one of the Italian Line's gems. Last week, after the ship had sat idle for two years in the port of La Spezia, fire broke out on board; when the flames were doused four days later, the Leonardo had leaned over on its starboard side and settled in 40 ft. of water in the port's main channel...
Withdrawn from transatlantic service in 1975 because of huge deficits, the Leonardo was decommissioned in 1978. At one point there had been hope that the vessel, with accommodations for 1,326 passengers, could be converted into a floating hotel. Its sister ships, the Raffello and the Michelangelo, were purchased by Iran before the 1979 revolution for $18 million each, and are now used as floating barracks. The Leonardo's estimated scrap value: a little more than $1 million...
...Pope's 9,000-mile pilgrimage within Brazil came at a time when relations between the Vatican and bishops of the largest Roman Catholic nation were badly strained. Many Brazilian bishops resent the Vatican's investigation of Leonardo Boff, Brazil's leading proponent of "liberation theology," which is built upon Marxist economic theory. When the Vatican asked Progressive Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns to discourage a meeting of liberation theologians, he pointedly ignored the request. In turn, the Pope has rejected the suggestions from the Brazilians in his past four appointments of new bishops for their country...
...main antique prototypes were the Marcus Aurelius, an equestrian statue in Pavia called the Re-gisole (long since destroyed) and the San Marco group. Almost all the major artists of the Renaissance, from Pisanello in the 15th century to Giambologna in the 16th, consulted the Venice horses; when Leonardo da Vinci was faced with the problem of designing a horseback monument to the Milanese warrior Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, he took them as his starting point, varying their massive poses and calm, advancing gait in numerous drawings, five exquisite examples of which are in the Met show. Only when the 17th...