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...charm and mellowness of a slow-growing, organic whole, surrounded with buildings of brick weathered sienna brown and warm pastel shades. The square is large enough to hold the town's whole population in its sloping, shell-shaped form, unified with simple, geometric lines radiating out from the Palazzo Pubblico. It is the site of mid-20th century celebrations that match in gusto those which so delighted the Renaissance storyteller Boccaccio...
...Remember." Though the Gold of Dongo has never since been seen, all Italy knows what happened to it: it went to Italy's Communist Party (whose headquarters in Rome is still popularly known as Palazzo Dongo). For more than a decade, in the face of persistent Communist stonewalling, successive Italian governments have been trying to unravel the intricate series of thefts and murders by which the Reds managed to get the treasure out of the hands of the partisans to whose care it was originally entrusted. Nearly two months ago in the marbled Palace of Justice at Padua...
Close to the Ideal. What Clare Luce did not know about the art of diplomacy she learned-fast. Sometimes working around the clock at her office in the Palazzo Margherita, she dealt with policy problems, administered consulates and agencies with staffs of more than 1,600. She traveled over 30,000 miles inside Italy, visited more than 30 Italian cities, popped up in towns and villages where ambassadors are never seen, launched ships, opened universities. In a recent two-month period, she saw 69 state visitors and 416 members of U.S. congressional groups, entertained hundreds of other dignitaries...
Images of Money. Gold is one, the daemon of the Venetian genius, as Mary McCarthy sees it. Not only does it glint from painting, palazzo and cathedral, but from the hard surfaces of the Venetian mind as well. It was typical of the Venetians to sit out the first three Crusades except as close-bargaining transport agents. How explain the paradox, asks Author McCarthy, of "a commercial people who lived solely for gain-how could they create a city of fantasy, lovely as a dream or a fairy tale?" Her answer is as tantalizing as her question: "There...
...huge bell atop Florence's Palazzo Vecchio pealed tumultuously one night last week, sending cheering Florentines into the streets to celebrate a victory over Roman bureaucracy and a triumph for local art and tourism. The Italian government, which had assembled 33 Italian masterpieces* for a good-will tour of Washington's National Gallery and Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, had bowed to the storm of protest from Italians who wanted their treasures kept right at home, suspended plans to send the show abroad until scientific tests could be made to guarantee that no harm would come...