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About the same time, Composer Harris, the festival's executive director, touched Pittsburgh's modern Medici (the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Howard Heinz Endowment, Edgar J. Kaufmann Charitable Trust) for most of the estimated $50,000 cost, got a 62-man international jury to select the world's most important composers...
...roasted boar's lung and powdered pumice. Pliny also quoted an Assyrian who had good results with a swallow's beak, ground up with myrrh. (He gave no directions for catching the swallow.) Bitter almonds had a legendary reputation in the Middle Ages, but Sir Thomas (Religio Medici) Browne, checking up in the 17;th century, sadly reported: "That antidote against ebriety . . . hath commonly failed." Later came raw eels, thoughtfully suffocated in wine. Present-day self-treatments include yeast, yoghurt, lime juice, vitamin B1, cabbage water or diminishing doses of alcohol...
Martyr's Red. Girolamo Savonarola was a reformer with imposing forensic powers, and the bottomless, concentrated piety of St. John of the Cross. He came to the Dominican monastery of San Marco at a time when Florence lay wrapped in the captive luxury of the Medici tyranny. The church and the papacy were sadly corrupt, suffering from the rule, successively, of two immoral Popes. Innocent VIII and Alexander...
Savonarola jumped into the life of Florence with the zest of a Puritan unloosed in Babylon. A man of deep and solitary faith, he believed he was God's instrument for purifying both church and city, and said so. His fervor turned out the Medici dictatorship, temporarily turned Florence into a theocracy. He fed the starving, reduced taxes for the poor, and protected the city from French invaders. He also burned books, ruthlessly condemned heresy, recruited armies of children to spy on their elders...
...duke, an Englishman to begin with, long ago acquired his title by the brisk expedient of "buying off ten claimants, three genuine." He is a blithe-spirited cross between Machiavelli and the Medici, and a lover of beauty in the form of small boys; his villa on the hill is staffed by a butler of eleven and a footman of ten. But the duke can remember days when he was better served: "When I came here first, they used to love me for my money. Now, I fear, they love my money...