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...Villa San Michele, just outside Florence, is a converted 15th century Franciscan monastery whose facade and grand loggia were designed by Michelangelo. Guests dine in the same refectory in which the ancient monks once broke bread. Its 32 rooms (all with private bath and telephone) run from about $17 to about $20 a day for full pension...
There are the numberless artists who lived to express their visions, or merely to earn applause, or both: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Raphael and Mozart, who aimed to please; El Greco, Goya, Picasso, Beethoven, Proust and Yeats, who mostly aimed to please themselves. And there are those who found in art a refuge from reality, either through true talent, like the runaway Gauguin, or through some talent mixed with posing, like Byron, Hemingway and Dali, or no talent at all, like the hundreds of pseudo artists who succeed on borrowed ideas and hand-me-down rebellion. There are the great artistic eccentrics...
...dream a reality. Hit by the loss of 31 of its 37 vessels in World War II and the national tragedy of the Andrea Doria disaster in 1956, it came back by building the Cristojoro Colombo and the Leonardo da Vinci in the 19505, six months ago launched the Michelangelo, a 43,000-ton superliner for the North Atlantic run. Last week, to the crash of band music and the splash of spumante, Michelangelo's twin, Raffaello, slid down the ways at Trieste. When the two ships go to work next year, replacing the prewar Saturnia and Vulcania, they...
Both Raffaello and Michelangelo will be among the most luxurious and comfortable passenger ships afloat. Each will carry 1,800 people (540 first class, 560 cabin, 700 tourist) in roomy cabins, have 30 salons and six swimming pools, closed-circuit TV, overall air conditioning and 18 elevators to serve eleven decks. (Still highly sensitive to the Andrea Doria disaster, the line has also installed extra watertight compartments and two modern radar systems.) The new ships' motto is ''Living like a lord." For passengers who find it hard to relax even amid such luxury, the Italian Line will...
...champion of everything, from shooting to pole vaulting; he was one of the world's great lovers, though "a genius gets tired of a girl in two months." As for other painters, he had no use for "this Picasso-basso fellow," or for "Bellini-meaney," or for Michelangelo ("nyeh, nyeh, nyeh...