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Some time in the 15th century, a family of painters named Zavattari began the most ambitious project of their lives in the Basilica of San Giovanni in the small northern Italian town of Monza. Just how long they worked or how many of them there were, no one knows for sure, but when they were done, the chapel walls sparkled like pages out of an illuminated manuscript (see color). There, in 40-odd glowing frescoes, was the life and legend of Queen Theodolinda, who had ruled over the Lombards some 900 years before and was still cherished in memory...
...colors, and a number of clumsy attempts at retouching made matters even worse. Finally, last April, the Italian government hired the Milanese restorer, Ottemi Delia Rotta, to try his hand. Painstakingly he removed the crusts of dirt, varnish and overpainting, injected casein glue behind places that were peeling. Today Monza's hidden treasures are hidden no longer...
Heavenly Command. After Agilulf died, Theodolinda ruled on with her son. One night she had a dream in which Heaven commanded her to build a church in Monza, her favorite of all Lombard towns. She built and her remains were buried in the Basilica of San Giovanni...
...Which last week placed first in the Mobilgas Economy Run from Los Angeles to Chicago, with an average of 32.68 miles a gallon. Other winners in their classes: Corvair Monza for four and six-cylinder compacts with automatic transmission (29.35 m.p.g.), Buick Special for eight-cylinder compacts (25.09), Plymouth Savoy for standard-sized cars (23.15), Ford Fairlane for low-priced V-8s (21.33), Chrysler Newport for medium-priced eights (19.9), and Cadillac for high-priced eights...
SPORTS-COUPE CORVAIR called the Monza-900 (named after Italian race track) will go into 1,000-per-month production in May, have bucket seats and fancier dash-and-panel trim, but keep standard Corvair 80-h.p. rear engine. Price...