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Students from over a score of foreign countries will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at a gathering of the International Council in the Main Parlor of the Phillips Brooks House to discuss Italy under the Fascist regime. Nicolo Tucci, professor of Political Economy, at Amherst, will address the group on the history and recent developments of Fascism, stressing the accomplishments and improvements that have been brought about under the dictatorship. The regime has fired Italians with a great political consciousness and patriotism and at the same time has safeguarded the country from the menace of Communism, Professor Tucci believes...
...drawings from the Platt collection are of early modern and late modern origin, and are from the Italian, French, English, and German schools. Among the more important works in the exhibition are "Nude Studies" by Tintoretto, from the De Nicolo collection; "Death of the Baptist", "Rent on the Flight", "Landscape", and "A Hermit, Reading", all by Guercino; drawings for ceiling decorations by Tiepolo; "Head" by Piazetta, and "Nude Studies", by Degas. "Le Vieux Charron", "Nude" by Rodin, "Angel with a Trumpet" by Blake; and a "Study of an Indian Girl" by Kolbe...
...Nicolo was elected by the Grand Council Secretary of the Republic of Florence, a lowlier post than the sound of it. For 14 years he compiled minutes, addressed envelopes, jogged ahorseback on 23 insignificant missions abroad, to say nothing of countless trips on domestic matters. Wherever he went he gleaned bits of information which he fitted into his political philosophy...
...personages he encountered on these wanderings-prelates, merchants, scholars-the most significant was Caesar Borgia, whose unscrupulous diplomacy Nicolo observed, admired, immortalized in The Prince, treatise of political theory...
With the ascendancy of the Medicis, Nicolo lost his job, was accused of plotting against the new rulers, banished to his poverty-stricken country villa. Here he was reduced to the boorish society of the pot-house-backgammon and trie trac with butcher and furnace-makers replaced learned converse with the intellectuals of Florence. Though he filled much of his time with wine, women, and oaths, he was forced out of sheer boredom to pore long hours over his beloved Latin-history, comedy, philosophy (translated from the Greek)-and set down his own political philosophy (The Prince, The Discourses...