Word: livorno
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...reporting on Dubrovnik in the cover story on "Europe's Secret Capitals," about some of our appealing smaller cities [Aug. 30]. You could have more explicitly mentioned, however, the Italian influence on Dubrovnik in past centuries, especially on its architecture and even its ancient Italian name: Ragusa. Roberto Macchia Livorno, Italy...
...also insinuated himself for a time deeply into the life of Picasso: "Everything in [him] tended toward purity in art. His insupportable pride, his black ingratitude, his haughtiness." But Modigliani sprang after all from a proud and unconventional family. He was born in the Tuscan port town of Livorno, a cosmopolitan city where Jews had lived freely since the Renaissance. Educated and progressive--his mother shocked her in-laws by starting a private school; his socialist brother was jailed for his political activities--his family had once been prosperous as well. But by the time of his birth...