Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Milan was buried Marina Beghe, 93, whose house for many years sheltered an energetic young priest named Achille Ratti, her nephew. Last week Achille Ratti, now 74, mourned his aunt. He had not left Rome since he became Pius XI in 1922, and the day of his aunt's burial was the day he had chosen to issue his second encyclical in this year of Depression. Title: Caritate Christi Compulsi (Urged by Charity of Christ...
...charity bazaar in Milan, Gabriele d'Annunzio gave one of his molar teeth, encased in a silver chest upon which he had engraved the Latin word Durabo (I will last). It was raffled off for 3,000 lire (about $150). Poet d'Annunzio. now practically toothless, bald as an egg, also contributed his War cigarets (bought by a nephew of Il Duce for 1,500 lire - about $75), a piece of cloth on which he had painted a design "with a violent hand." and a bewitched bird. Interviewed upon landing at Rotterdam, bushy-haired Albert Einstein remarked: "Nice...
...peasant, the daughter of the keeper of a tiny village inn, invincibly modest and wholesome. To say that // Duce ignores Her Excellency and lives a bachelor's life in Rome is to ignore the fact that he also visits her from time to time in Milan or on their farm at Forli in northern Italy, bounces their latest babe upon his knee and otherwise demonstrates his warm family feelings...
...uttermost parts of the world goes news of the election of Achille Cardinal Ratti, Archbishop of Milan, to be Rome's 261st Pope. Facts: he is 64, stocky, a onetime mountain-climber; famed as Papal Nuncio to seething Poland; a sober, scholarly cleric; a politically-minded, potent man of action...
Typical products of an age that set a premium on immortality and fame are Pisanello's medallion portraits of the great folk at the courts of Ferrara, Mantua, and Milan. Although small in scale, through the accuracy of modelling and characterization, they partake of the qualities of monumental works of art. One is apt to remember the sharp profile of Paleologus in the fantastic dress of Byzantium, the appropriately gentle likeness of Cecilia Gonzaga, and the strangely fascinating head of Leonello d'Este. We may see side by side the first proofs in lead and the later casts in bronze...