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Just three miles south is another fine resort, Villa La Selva, situated on land held until the 15th century by the famed Medici family. Owner Sergio Carpini, 71, spends every spare moment hunting for antique furniture and fine Italian marble and textiles with which to furnish his guest rooms. Carpini is putting the final touches on a hilltop villa that sleeps 20. Initial restorations uncovered a Madonna and the wooden bearings of a house from the early 16th century. "Like the masterpieces in the museums," says Carpini, "this is our patrimony that must be preserved." Here too are some...
Simonetta Vespucci, the mistress of Giuliano de' Medici, died of tuberculosis at 23, but it is said Botticelli used her lissome and rhythmical curves as the model for Venus on her half-shell and Flora in La Primavera. Vespucci may have looked like that, or she may not. Maybe she was a blond pudge like Pamela Anderson. Getting tumbled in a wave of neo-Platonic fantasizing about how outer shape mirrors inner essence--"For Soule is Forme, and doth the Bodie make," wrote the poet Spenser in 1596--may be great for the figure and complexion when court painters like...
Among the patrician grande dames, the Breakers is regarded as royalty. Its facade is patterned after Rome's Villa Medici. The interior is a riot of tapestries, Renaissance paintings, marble and lush gardens. Until recently, guests who returned year after year to enjoy the grandeur were mostly older. "This was not a resort that was historically family friendly," admits Paul Leone, president of Flagler System, the private, family-run company that has always owned the Breakers. "Back in the '20s, for example, the scene was very formal--the men in black tie." In the mid-'90s, management reached...
Bush’s professions that he is unconvinced by the evidence are themselves entirely unconvincing. A favorite poison of mystery writers and the Medici, arsenic is also a known carcinogen. According to one study completed in 1999 by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, the current maximum arsenic level allowed by law results in a 1-in-1,000 risk to men of developing lung or bladder cancer. Though no recent studies have been conducted on Americans, the evidence from international reports is compelling, and the researchers urged the EPA to reduce...
...MEDICI OF THE AIRWAVES...