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...began when unusually heavy rains, pounding down the Alps into northern Italy, swelled the Po. Italy's largest river went on rampage, smashing dikes, crumbling farmhouses, sending truckloads of refugees into Milan. Then came a disastrous coincidence: roaring winds from the east pounded the Adriatic, rolling up high waves which pushed against the Po's outlet, backed the flood waters up on the land. Italy, a land which has often played host to one or more of the four dread Riders of the Apocalypse, lay gasping last week under the worst flood in a century. The loss...
...Italian opera companies got no fiscal comfort at all. The economy-minded Italian Senate recommended that the government's annual subsidy to opera (last year 2 billionlire-about $3,000,000) be cut in half. Among those badly hit, if the government follows the Senate's advice: Milan's famed La Scdla, which counts on its 400 million-lire subsidy for half of its budget...
...Once he ran away from home and hid out on the common; it was a deeply humiliating anticlimax when his big sister flushed him out after a few hours.) A boy could also escape by reading. Graham was 14 when he read Marjorie Bowen's * The Viper of Milan, a melodramatic yarn about a war between the dukes of Milan and Verona, and "from that moment I began to write...
...learn much later, if at all. "Goodness has only once found a perfect incarnation in a human body and never will again, but evil can always find a home there. Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey . . . I read all that in The Viper of Milan, and I looked round and I saw that...
Some of Leonardo's inventions were actually built and used. His canal locks are still in operation near Milan, and they work just like the locks of the Panama Canal. But Leonardo was often too far ahead of his contemporaries. His paddle-wheel boat, his cantilever swing bridge, his pumps and his air conditioner (both driven by water power) did not fit the crude technology of the 16th Century. Centuries had to pass before the slow-moving world caught up with Leonardo...