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...Cuba, he lived according to his idea of a model citizen. In one of Rome's fashionable quarters, he shared a penthouse with his blonde, toothsome, 28-year-old mistress, Igea Lissoni, a former dancer and nightclub worker. Igea attributes her good fortune to the prophecy of a Milan fortuneteller, who two years ago told her she would meet the man of her dreams in Capri. Igea hastened forthwith to Capri, and there met Lucky Luciano, whose vast suite took up half of a floor in the island's best hotel...
Beatrice d'Este was 16 when the future Duke of Milan married her (in 1491), and probably not much older when Leonardo da Vinci painted her portrait for the Duke, his patron. Innocent, fresh and direct, the portrait was like a summing up of everything that the complex, secretive, worldly-wise Old Master himself was not. It made a highlight in the comprehensive show of Leonardo and his circle at Los Angeles County Museum last week...
Sharp & Tired. Yet the hits of the show seemed to be two less well known Italian sculptors, both in their 40s and both art teachers in Milan. Francesco Messina had sent a polished bronze Pugilatore, done in the old Roman tradition of sharp realism. Pugilatore had the punch-dazed, flat-footed weariness, the slumping shoulders of a bantamweight turning back to his corner after the tenth round...
Fewer than 10,000 of the Communist faithful clustered in Milan's vast Piazza del Duomo last week under a roof of black, rain-spattered umbrellas. The square was two-thirds empty. Soggy onlookers drifted away for hot drinks in nearby cafes. In Rome, a damp crowd sang dispiritedly in the Piazza del Popolo. A newsboy hawked the Communist newspaper: "Here's Unità. If you can't read, stand under it." The Reds' May Day show in Italy, billed in advance as the biggest & best ever, was a sodden fizzle...
...York, Maestro Arturo Toscanini cheerfully put his wife aboard an airliner for Paris, announced that he would join her in Milan early next month. Would he fly, too? Said the maestro: "No, no, no! I will go on a boat...