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...labyrinth used to devour sacrificial Greek virgins-6-inch naval gunfire bellowed over the blue Mediterranean one morning last week. The 6,830-ton Australian cruiser Sydney had engaged two Italian cruisers of the 5,06g-ton Condottieri class-the Bartolomeo Colleoni and the Giovanni delle Bande Nere.* These ships can make 38 knots to the Sydney'?, 32.5. They have the same fire power (eight 6-inch guns each) but the Italians are lightly armored, designed especially to catch and destroy destroyers. Two British destroyers spotted them first and flashed word to the Sydney, which was coming down from...
...Bande Nere promptly fled, but not before being hit. The Colleoni paused long enough to trade salvos with the Sydney. This was fatal. A shell struck into her boiler room, and crippled her so that British destroyers could close in and polish her off with two torpedoes. The destroyers then rescued 545 officers & men who had stripped and jumped overboard. Italian dead & wounded totaled about...
...effigy to most U. S. tourists. The statue of Colleoni by Verrocchio, which stands in the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice is one of the world's great equestrian statues; several casts of it are in U. S. museums. The statue of Giovanni delle Bande Nere (a Medici, only one of the family who ever became a soldier) sits before the Medici church of San Lorenzo in Florence. Its sculptor was Baccio Bandinelli who considered himself a rival of Michelangelo. Michelangelo himself said the statue looked like a sack of melons...
After that Aretino began working the nobility. The crooked Marquis of Mantua, violent Giovanni della Bande Nere became patrons and friends. Then through miscalculating some smart moves he was nearly murdered, moved to Venice for safety. He spent the rest of his life there. Emperor Charles V and the Doge were among his patrons. He spent his cadgings bottomlessly on himself, on poor people, and on the women and artist bums who swarmed his house. He tirelessly promoted his friend Titian; managed, by two extraordinary letters, to scare Francis I out of an alliance with Turkey; quarreled with everyone from...
...Militia, eager to avenge the Italian rout at Guadalajara (TIME, March 22 et seq.), the ignominious chasing by Basque fishwives during the Bilbao siege (TIME, June 28). A horse laugh went through Leftist lines outside Santander when they read a purported order issued by General Piazzoni to Le Frecce Nere (Black Arrows): "As the Black Arrows were the first to reach Bilbao, so they will be the first to enter Santander. With proud heart and bayonets raised, be ready to dash to the glory that awaits...