Word: medici
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...academy, founded in 1583 with support by the Medici family and with Galileo himself as a member, published its first dictionary in 1612, a century and a half before the learned Dr. Johnson did as much for English. Subsequent editions appeared regularly until 1811 and one-the 1623 edition-became the model for definitive dictionaries in other European countries. The academicians tackled the job again in 1842, and plugged away for 81 years in their classical Dantean style, leading one critic to call the work "a vile, barbarous collection of excommunicated language." They were...
...life at Harvard is for from boxing. Harvard is a land of tigers, transcendentalists, renaissance leaders, and seducers. My image of myself is revitalized. Now I'm a bold rebel against morality and society, now a figure in an Intellectual renaissance; now I'm Jack Kerouac, now Lorenzo de Medici. The old routine beckons irresistably ahead
Road to Immortality. Political assassination, said Dr. G. Wilse Robinson of Kansas City, Mo., did not change from the time of Cain to that of the Medici, but in the modern era there has been a change in the character of the assassin. Today's hired killer wants no part of any attempt on the life of a prominent political figure. Such work is too dangerous. That leaves two types of assassinations: the conspiracy, as in the death of Lincoln, and the person-to-person attack. But the conspiracy against Lincoln was conceived and directed by John Wilkes Booth...
Ironclad Rule. Surrounded by bosomy Gobelin tapestries depicting the life and love of Henri IV and his Italian queen, Marie de Medici, and warmed by the glow of a log fire, Couve kept at his workhorse job. For though the policy objectives of France are laid down in the presidential offices at the Elysee Palace, it is across the river at the Quai d'Orsay, and inside Couve's nimble and encyclopedic head, that the means for action are sorted out and applied...
...offers a sampling of paternal advice, reproach and exhortation from the 14th century to the present day. At their most fascinating, the letters sketch whole chapters of social history in a few lines. "You ought to aim at being a good ecclesiastic," writes that arch-politician Lorenzo de' Medici in 1492 to the teen-age son he has just seen made a cardinal, "nor will it be difficult for you to favor your family"-thus suggesting the marriage of piety and expedience that so corrupted the Roman Catholic church and led at last to the Reformation. "Practice...