Word: medici
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister of Corporations Ferruccio Lantini, Minister of Trade Felice Guarneri, Minister of Communications Antonio Stefano Benni, Minister of Public Works Giuseppe Cobolli-Gigli, Under Secretary of State Giuseppe Medici del Vascello...
...Ministry of Information's Home Publicity Department. Father Selfridge, now definitely in retirement, plans after visiting Chicago to return to his London office (whose windows are covered with autographs etched in with a diamond-pointed pencil) and work on a life of Cosimo de' Medici...
...When the Medici returned to Florence, 43-year-old Machiavelli was dismissed. He wept. "All that I have any knowledge of," he wrote, "is the State." He was jailed and tortured. Freed, he retired to his tiny farm, but farming exasperated the most coldly efficient political brain of his century. In 1513 Machiavelli took time out from manuring his fields and in a few months finished the Prince. "Necessity . . . impelled the dedication" to Lorenzo Medici. Lorenzo did not open the book, though he ordered a lackey to take Machiavelli two bottles of wine...
...dread malaria. Of these dire swamps wrote Vergil, Juvenal, Martial, Horace, Ovid and others, including Madame de Stael and more recently Gabriele D'Annunzio. Julius Caesar made elaborate plans for reclamation, Augustus and even Nero had vast labors performed, but in vain. The Catholic popes, notably that enlightened Medici, His Holiness Leo X, then took over the unequal struggle with the potent Pontine Marshes, and finally in 1918 the Italian Government made elaborate plans...
MADAME CURIE MEDICI AND THE LOST REVOLUTION rant, later a well-known illustrator, who enlisted in the U. S. Army at the outbreak...