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...known as “Lorenzo the devil” in sixteenth-century Florence, the hedonistic favorite of the Duke Alessandro de Medici, his cousin and eventual assassin. Never predictable, mostly because he was perpetually drunk and always irreverent, he became a symbol of Florentine decadence, a worthy complement to the debauchery of Alessandro himself...
...could have guessed that precisely three centuries later Alfred de Musset, France’s Shakespeare and George Sand’s hopeless lover, would transform Lorenzo’s story into tragic farce. And even then, no one could have expected that two centuries after that, Lorenzo himself would be transformed—into a skinny, pale, 21st-century girl, with springs in her legs and melancholy eyes...
...Public Gardens panels, reunited for the first time since 1929, provide the show with a spectacular centerpiece, and a welcome breath of outdoor air. The show will remain in Paris until Jan. 5, before moving to London's Royal Academy of Arts from Jan. 31-April 18. Botticelli, from Lorenzo the Magnificent to Savonarola (Oct. 1-Feb. 22) assembles 20 Botticelli paintings and six drawings, plus a dozen works by contemporaries like Filippo Lippi and Piero di Cosimo, all working during the late 15th century, when Florence blossomed in the humanist atmosphere of the Medici court before being swallowed...
...Happy birthday,' a lot. I congratulate people at work for achieving employee-of-the-month." LORENZO LAMAS, former co-star of such TV shows as Falcon Crest, on his latest job, providing greetings on a website, HollywoodIsCalling.com where B-list celebrities sell phone greetings to people willing...
...troubles are a severe disappointment to many from both east and west who hoped the capital's reunification would lead to a more prosperous future, and their frustration is now seeping into the city's cultural and nightlife. "There's a mood of great uncertainty," says Giovanni di Lorenzo, editor of the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. "People know they will have to make sacrifices." Heading the list of Berlin's problems is the financial crisis facing the municipal government. The Berlin city council, known as the Senate, will present its 2004 budget next week. According to Finance Minister Thilo Sarrazin, Berlin...