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That afternoon, the Carters arrived in Venice under extremely tight security. Three weeks earlier, Italy's dreaded terrorists had warned the summiteers: "We of the Red Brigades are waiting for you." Accordingly, Venice seemed to be under siege. Bersaglieri (crack army marksmen) lined the runways of Marco Polo Airport...
...most stunning part of Sandalo's testimony was his account of a remarkable meeting he had with Carlo Donat-Cattin, deputy secretary-general and No. 2 man in the dominant Christian Democratic Party. It seemed that Donat-Cattin's son Marco, 28, was a fellow member of Prima Linea. According to San-dalo, when the father learned that police were about to start a man hunt for Marco, he summoned Sandalo and begged him to warn his son that he should flee the country. But who tipped off Donat-Cattin about the impending arrest? Sandalo claimed it came...
Maurice E. Friot, M.D. Marco Island...
...image of the hero on horseback -human intelligence bending brute nature to its command-was central to Renaissance art, and its main antique prototypes were the Marcus Aurelius, an equestrian statue in Pavia called the Re-gisole (long since destroyed) and the San Marco group. Almost all the major artists of the Renaissance, from Pisanello in the 15th century to Giambologna in the 16th, consulted the Venice horses; when Leonardo da Vinci was faced with the problem of designing a horseback monument to the Milanese warrior Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, he took them as his starting point, varying their massive poses...
...sculpture, the San Marco horses do not really equal the massive, noble modeling and sheer formal energy of the Marcus Aurelius. The curves of the horse at the Met are almost languid, its transitions smoother, the sense of muscular tension and vigor less commanding. But it is still magnificent, even in comparison with the other sculptures at the show; among these is a bronze horse's head from the Florence Archaeological Museum which, with its flaring, taut musculature, rhythmic neck folds and elegantly articulated mane, is the very essence of forceful Hellenistic realism...