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Berlin was realistic. It formally announced that Florence, home of the Medici, birthplace of Dante, storehouse of some of the finest art in the world, was an open city. General Sir Harold Alexander, Allied commander in chief, was quietly optimistic. Said he: "I think I can hear the bell ringing for the last...
...Raphael's famed portrait of the powerful, crafty Florentine ruler, Giuliano de' Medici. This somber classic Italian Renaissance masterpiece disappeared for three centuries, was rediscovered in Florence in 1867, was sold to the Russian Imperial family, cost Collector Bache...
...doubtful whether Leonardo ever embraced a woman in love. . ." Leonardo's first patron was Lorenzo de' Medici, lavish ruler of Florence. But Leonardo served himself miserably: he was ridden by a perfectionism which prevented him from finishing a work. Even the patient Lorenzo finally let his artist go-to Milan, where he served the great Duke Ludovico Sforza. There Leonardo ranged through "interior decoration, gadget design, city planning, court painting and sculpture. His painter's mind was increasingly and almost ruinously engaged by intellectual curiosity about the physical world. Leonardo ended by turning from art to science...
Married. Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville Jr., 49, asbestos heir; and Macie Marie Ainsworth Ettinger ("Sunny") Moran, 19, twice-married ex-chorine; in Manhattan. The marriage lasted 7 hr. 45 min. At week's end Mrs. Manville No. 7, fortified with a book about the Medici, took a train to Reno, and New York State Senator Louis B. Heller said he would sponsor a bill to outlaw matrimonial Houdinis who "affront the majesty and dignity of the state...
...TIME'S apologies to the Medici...