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...Milan the contents of Gabriele d'Annunzio's new book entitled One Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred Pages of the Secret of Gabriele d'Annunzio, Who Is Now Tempted to Die, were revealed: 1) introduction...
...ancient reigning houses in Italy. In Leonardo's time, besides the heir Alphonso, whom Lucrezia Borgia married after she had had her third husband murdered, there were two d'Este daughters, Isabella and Beatrice. Leonardo was working at the splendid court of Ludovico Sforza, later duke of Milan, when his patron married Beatrice, younger and more beautiful of the two. Between her marriage at 16 and her death in childbirth at 22, Leonardo saw much of her and painted two of her husband's mistresses. Two years after her death he left Sforza and stopped at Mantua...
...Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials of the Virgin and Bellini's Pietà. From Padua, Giotto's Crucifixion, elaborately and tenderly packed, set out for Paris and from Venice, Giorgione's The Tempest and Mantegna's Saint George. Benito Mussolini accepted...
After the maneuver airmen call a "dog fight," Il Duce's diving, threatening, corner-cutting planes scared the Nazi pilot into a forced landing, seized two German long-range telescopic cameras. While several Milan correspondents vouched for this news, the Dictator's official press bureau blandly announced that there had been no such incident, the theory of Benito Mussolini being that when Nazis have to be curbed by their own strong-arm methods, the less said about it the better...
15th Century Portraits. Bartolommeo Colleoni was a 18th Century gangster who earned undying fame by making a shrewd contract with the Venetian Republic. He agreed to lead the Venetian army against Milan in return for a large sum in cash and a statue of himself on horseback in the middle of St. Mark's Square. The statue was finally erected blocks away, but it was by Verrocchio. It is now generally considered the greatest equestrian statue in the world...