Word: medici
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alessandro, Duke of Florence (Morgan), decides to have Cellini (March) killed, for fighting with a Medici. The Duchess (Bennett) wants him to remain alive until he has finished some gold plates for her banquet to the Duchess of Milan. When the Duke calls on Cellini, the artist is making love to Angela, his model (Fay Wray). The Duke changes his mind, pardons Cellini, takes his model to his summer palace. Presently the Duchess visits Cellini's workshop. She commissions him to make a key, asks him to bring it to the summer palace. Cellini arrives with the key while...
...suffered its recent noisy break-down and was replaced by the Initials Plan, the CWA did not fail to extend its benevolence to creative geniuses in the arts who were faced with starvation when the market for their products, like that for wheat, coal, and rubber, failed. Like the Medici, like Henry VIII, like Riche-lieu, a sovereign people undertook to subsidize bona fide creators...
...petitions the Holy Father pronounced: "Decernimus et definimus. . , . We decree and define that Blessed Louise de Marillac, widow of Antoine le Gras, is a saint." St. Louise de Marillac was born of a noble family in 1591 in Paris. Married to Antoine le Gras, secretary to Queen Marie de Medici, she became a mother at 22, a widow at 34. Thereafter under the guidance of a confessor, who later became St. Vincent de Paul, Mme Le Gras devoted herself to good works. In 1633 she gathered about her four young women whom she trained in caring for the poor...
...background to the Simon-Mussolini talks, Italy's Chamber of Deputies was treated to a stirring speech by Marquis Giacomo Medici del Vascello, rapporteur of Italy's Naval budget. Crediting Italy with a 12% reduction of her naval expenditures for the coming year, the Marquis cried: "Elsewhere the vision of peace for which the world clamors is receding. . . . During the useless [Disarmament Conference] discussions at Geneva, the three major naval powers [U. S., Britain and Japan] worked to add new vessels to their fleets. . . . Japan today invades China. Inspired by race hatred she will plan tomorrow against white...
...much sentries as interpreters. Bilingual, they can read the barbaric ensigns of these seeming foreigners and translate them into symbols that will not frighten the commonest sense. Interpreter Meier-Graefe's biography of crazy Painter van Gogh is known already to a few U. S. readers (the Medici Society, London, first published it in a limited de luxe edition, 1922). Significant of the increased interest in left-wing artists and writers is this revised translation, sponsored by the Literary Guild. An artist in his own right, Biographer Meier-Graefe has fused van Gogh's letters into a narrative...