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Guignard plunged into art studies in Munich, Florence, Padua, Venice, Paris. He built up a small, solid reputation-and a big, solid thirst...
...could not care less. "He didn't appeal to me when he was younger," she said, "and he appeals to me even less now." When told that Francesco had named her his heir, Angela showed a tougher fiber than even the most famous of Italian shrews, Katharina of Padua. Snapped Angela: "I want no part of him, alive or dead...
Giotto's masterpiece is the Life of Christ, with which he covered the little Arena Chapel at Padua. Of all his major works, it has been least tampered with. The Nativity, though patches have flaked away, retains something of its original hues, and the forms are all there still and all clear (see color). The animals, the dreaming Joseph, the rapt shepherds and the choiring angels together form a kind of halo around the central drama: a mother's first sight of her baby...
...current Prince Orsini is 37-year-old Filippo Napoleone, who replenished the declining fortunes of his house by marrying Franca Bonacossi, a provincial sugar-beet heiress from Padua. Franca, a woman of ambitious piety, filled her home with cardinals, bishops, monsignors and assorted clergy, urged that her husband be appointed Prince Assistant to the Pope in place of his father (who had been disqualified when he married a U.S. divorcee). She succeeded. But stocky, handsome Filippo Napoleone was bored by cardinals as dinner guests. He preferred to drink cocktails and talk to pretty girls in nightclubs. He never went home...
...determined to be of Russian manufacture. The message: "Many messages but no hope. For 13 years we have been working as slaves in mines. These men have slit eyes. One dies like a dog. We are in the Polar Arctic. We are 300 Italian soldiers from Salara, Friuli, Verona, Padua, Rovigo. God is our hope of salvation...