Word: lorenzo
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...poet, an obscure contemporary of Michelangelo's, was trying to describe one of the seven figures which the sculptor had carved for the Medici Chapel in Florence's Church of San Lorenzo. Charles de Tolnay, a Michelangelo scholar and member of Princeton's highbrow Institute for Advanced Study, has done much better. In a newly published book of bold erudition (The Medici Chapel; Princeton University Press, $20) De Tolnay interprets the entire chapel in the light of a single theme. Deep inside De Tolnay's brier patch of facts and shrewd guesses lies new evidence that...
...Philadelphia, when Lorenzo Brokenbaugh admitted that he had four wives, Judge Raymond MacNeille gave him 9 to 18 months and a piece of his legal mind: "You're setting a bad example for those of us who have only one wife...
...Carnival Song," a setting for men's voices and brass of a poem by Lorenzo de' Medici, will be sung by the Glee Club under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth '24. Written in 1988, the work has been recorded by the Club and performed widely...
...surely did not add to the necessarily exact timing between the orchestra, solo voices, and chorus. And despite the obvious virtues of understanding gained by using English words, no one interested in music will ever be reconciled to hearing the quick rhymes and smooth-flowing Italian diction of librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte exchanged for the ponderous, ungainly English of even so able translator as Edward Dent...
...Italy, 2,500 historic buildings got in the line of fire. The abbey atop Monte Cassino, which St. Benedict founded in 529, was a cellar drowned in rubble. But Rome escaped whole-except for the Church of San Lorenzo-outside-the-Walls, founded by Emperor Constantine (see cut). The ruins of ancient Greece (made genuine ruins by Turkish shells in 1827) had not been disturbed...