Word: milan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Built last spring, this housing project in Milan, Italy, was originally set up for private families who could afford to pay the rents in this rather well-to-do part of the city. But just before construction of the block of apartments was completed, the Italian Communist Party moved 1500 homeless people from as far south as Calabria and Sicily into the building...
There was very little the private owners could do to protest the action--the police would have had a hard time evicting 1500 people who had nowhere to go, and the party controls the Milan City Council anyway. So the squatters are still living in the not-quite-finished building, and the party is compensating the intended owners...
Johnson is master of the arresting detail, the vivid personality sketch. In an evocative little essay on St. Ambrose, the Roman magistrate who became Bishop of Milan in 373, he pauses to note Augustine's surprise when he found that Ambrose could read silently to himself-a rare skill in the ancient world. Discussing the opening of the Council of Trent, the great 16th century Catholic assembly that began the Counter Reformation, he observes how Christoforo Madruzzo, the host bishop, opened the meeting with a 74-dish banquet and 100-year-old wine. After dinner, Madruzzo...
...anything served in Florence or Provence. Southern cooking is essentially regional, indigenous and inventive, a long frypan throw from the elegantly stylized haute cuisine of Paris or Rome. To the educated palate a Southern meal, at its diverse best, is worth the price of a ticket to Marseille or Milan...
...began working in the theater while in his early twenties. After World War II he settled in Milan and, at 26, was invited by La Scala to stage La Traviata. Since then he has directed several operas there. Collaborating with Conductor Claudio Abbado has been satisfying, in part because both men thrive on lengthy discussion and painstaking rehearsal. Speaking of their Boccanegra production, Strehler comments: "Directing the opera is like writing an essay on it -an effort to unlock the essence...