Word: palazzos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...palace itself, properly known as the Palazzo Poli, holds no art treasures; but its south side forms a backdrop for Trevi fountain, conceived in 1630 by Architect Giovanni Bernini, and built more than 100 years later, chiefly by Nicola Salvi. Hollywood added to the fountain's fame with its Three Coins in the Fountain, and Rome's moviemakers did their bit by dunking Anita Ekberg in its great marble basin for a high-voltage, low-décolletage scene in La Dolce Vita...
...History, who will discuss the history of Harvard's cultural ties with Florence and the significance of Lowell's Dante studies. Lowell was one of the founders of the Dante Society and did much to popularize Dante studies in this country. Gilmore's address will be given in the Palazzo Vecchio, an imposing stone structure that dates back centuries to the beginning of the Florentine Republic...
Four toughs burst by night into the palazzo of a cardinal, who "looked up irritably. His ambitions had scooped him out like a melon. There was no one left inside to be taken by surprise . . ."A man is stationed at a prison: "For the first time in his life he had others at his mercy. Any man who has ever been a prisoner longs to be a guard. Children like to re-enact the crucifixion. Rejected lovers dream of murder. The tortured are fascinated by the rack. In their sleep the humbled pull down whole towns...
...Basque, Colony and Caravelle are In; "21" hasn't been In for years. After the 15th of June, the right thing is to slip over to Venice for a couple of weeks. There, of course, it would be best to have one's own palazzo-President Kennedy's friends, the Charles Wrights-mans, do. Countess Natalie Volpi's pied a terre is a good example of style in Venice. The countess usually spends about a fortnight there in June; then off to Rome and other In spots until September, when Venice is Right again...
...home of the lightly taxed rich, does not yet know the Society P.R. Man or the charity ball; old-line aristocracies stage their own parties, and the climbing offers fewer hand and toe holds than in the U.S. In Rome, Count Aspreno Colonna gives an annual reception in his palazzo, whose splendors no U.S. citizen could match. Queen Elizabeth II once told the count: "After seeing your palace, I feel quite reluctant to invite you to Buckingham...