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...years ago. He and three colleagues scoured 35 museums for objects that would "highlight one of the most remarkable and least known aspects of Italian art and civilization." The show opened in Turin, went on to Bari and Naples, was on view last week in the Palazzo Reale of Milan. Its next scheduled stops: Zurich in April. Warsaw in June...
...rings, earrings, necklaces, brooches, buckles and tiny busts. When the capital of the empire moved to Constantinople, its jewelry became garish and showy; and when the barbarians swept away the glory that was Rome, taste made its final surrender to superficial glitter. In the 1,000 objects in the Milan show, vanity and art started out as allies, ended as enemies. But rarely has the jeweler's hand produced objects of such intimate charm as it did when the alliance was in full flower...
...Honey. When the Italians saw all that-at Milan's world première of the Italian cinema's long-anticipated Boccaccio '70-they burst forth, some with catcalls and derisive whistles, others with cheers. Produced by Carlo Ponti, husband of Sophia Loren, Boccaccio '70 tells four stories. None derive from the Decameron that Giovanni Boccaccio wrote six centuries ago, but they are designed as modern reflections of Boccaccio's lusty humanism, and the '70 of the title is a wild hope that the film will still be running eight years from now. Judged...
TURN OF THE WHEEL, by Roger Vailland (179 pp.; Knopf; $3.50). Milan, an interior decorator, and his wife Roberte, come from Paris to live in the country, squabble, drink, and toss hard truths at one another like bottles of vitriol. Why? Because, says Milan, "two lovers who love one another passionately can only detest each other, as the drunk detests liquor, the addict dope, the gambler cards, and the invert homosexuals." Héléne, a nubile village schoolteacher, is fascinated by the couple's rantings about their free-loving and free-hating past. "Take...
...first scene of the movie, a well-known Italian writer (Marcello Mastroianni) and his wife (Jeanne Moreau) arrive at a hospital in Milan to visit a dying friend (Bernhard Wicki). Leaving the friend's room some minutes later than his wife, the writer is accosted in the hall by a mental patient, a nymphomaniac. Impulsively, he enters her room...