Word: loreto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the strangest episode in his strange life came just before Gage decided to recant. Although he pleads throughout his narrative against "Popish superstitions"-including prayers to the saints-he nevertheless made a pilgrimage to Loreto to test his strength as heretic. He had already half decided to renounce Rome and become a Protestant. If, he reasoned, he prayed in bad faith before the image of Our Lady of Loreto, surely it would blush or sweat. But the image made not a sign...
...military boots first began to scrape along the streets. Tough little soldiers in suntans deployed briskly. In less than an hour, without firing a shot, they occupied the city's radio stations, telegraph office, and the big, grey prefectura building, Capitol of the jungled, Arizona-size department of Loreto...
...preferred the flesh and blood magnificence of his giant contemporary, Titian. So Lotto roamed Italy's small towns, picking up a commission for a church mural here, a portrait there. In 1554, when he was 72, Lotto turned himself and his belongings over to the Holy House at Loreto, because he was "tired of wandering." The contract provided that the monks would say prayers for him, and that he would have one florin a month "to do what he pleased with...
...Clara, it was nothing of the kind. Her love and her letters continued to pour forth for the benefit of masterful Benito Mussolini, right up to the time in April 1945 when the two of them were hung together by the heels in death in Milan's Piazza Loreto. Clara never learned to forgive her dictator, his indifference, his violence or his infidelities, and never learned to forget...