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...Louis of Boston is ultra-trendy is an understatement. The gem of Newbury high fashion, Louis of Boston is known for its up-to-the-minute clothes and up-to-the-ceiling prices. In the café, waiters—all clad in designer clothing, ranging from Italian Lorenzini shirts to Paperdenim&cloth jeans to custom-made Puma sneakers—ensure that customers dine in an atmosphere that reeks of style. Even background music is customized—an in-house DJ blends low-tempo tunes to enhance patrons’ dining experience. “Jackie O used...

Author: By Jamie B. Sodikoff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

Though he lived and died in Florence, Lorenzini was captivated by his mother's home village on Monte a Pescia. Its rustic beauty was an ideal setting, as Pinocchio once explained to the talking cricket, in which "to chase butterflies, to climb trees and take little birds from their nests." Says Professor Rolando Anzilotti, president of the Carlo Collodi Foundation that promotes the lore of Pinocchio: "The book reflects the flavor of a country town where a child first opens his eyes to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: A Century Old | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...most famous son of Collodi, an outlying district of the Tuscan town of Pescia, was a mischievous, woodenheaded youngster named Pinocchio. Ever since Author Carlo Lorenzini, writing under the pen name of Carlo Collodi, created Pinocchio 73 years ago, the impish antics of the bad puppet who became a good boy have delighted children the world over. Two years ago, Pinocchio added another measure to his fame. Professor Rolando Anzilotti of the University of Florence defeated his Communist opponent in the race for mayor of Pescia by promising that, if elected, he would see to it that a suitable statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Two for Pinocchio | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...central Italian village of Collodi (pop. 1,400), where Carlo Lorenzini ("Collodi") wrote the story of Pinocchio in 1880, has been collecting pennies from schoolchildren the world over to build a monument to its famous little wooden-headed citizen. Each contributor has received a certificate entitling him to tell one harmless lie a week without damage to his nose. Last week such a license was on its way to Walt Disney, who filmed the story of the puppet in 1939 and who had sent a contribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 26, 1953 | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

Some observers thought the movement, despite its peculiarly widespread character, was spontaneous. Giuseppe Lorenzini, a partisan brigade leader, declared that it had been fomented and financed by the Communist Party. Chief point of interest: were the Communists trying to organize a Tito-like partisan movement to harass the Allied rear in case of a Yugoslav move against Trieste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Partisans in Arms | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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