Word: palazzos
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...Premier's words were more than diplomatic bluff. All week at the Palazzo Chigi, the Foreign Ministry, government officials were predicting dolefully that Pella might face ouster when Parliament reconvenes later this month unless he can produce promise of progress on Trieste, the most emotional issue in Italy. Already, Pietro Nenni's Red Socialists, yearning for a chance to swerve Italy from the West to neutralism, were baying that Pella's pro-U.S. policy is a failure and that Italy should dump him and change course...
...official visits required of royalty on tour had left her toes cramped and sore. Her face showed no sign of her trouble as she stood -aloof, beautiful and dignified in flowing white brocade-to receive the distinguished noblemen and diplomats who thronged the glittering reception hall in the great palazzo. Gravely smiling, she greeted, in half-a-dozen languages, each baron and ambassador, each banker's lady and minister of state with the correct slight nod and carefully chosen words. There seemed to be not a flaw in the well-ordered proceedings. Then the camera peeped impertinently beneath...
...small U.S. art colony that has settled since war's end in the city with the candid intention of learning all they can from the work of the old Venetian masters. Last week ten of them hung up 35 of their pictures in a 15th century palazzo and invited the town in to see the results...
...morning in 1498, a Dominican monk named Girolamo Savonarola said a last "Mass in the chapel of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. Then he and two fellow Dominicans were dragged outside to a cross-shaped scaffold. As thousands of Florentines jeered, they were stripped of their white habits. The last of the three, Savonarola silently received the hangman's noose. As he died, a pyre was lit at the bottom of his scaffold...
...late circus king, John Ringling, cleared a snake-&-alligator-infested swamp to build the museum, which resembles an Italian palazzo. The wealthy collectors of his day were attracted mainly by early Renaissance and Impressionist paintings. Ringling instinctively preferred the flamboyance of 16th and 17th century Baroque art. By following his own nose and ignoring the sniffs of rival connoisseurs, he was able to stuff his museum with king-size treasures at bargain prices. He bequeathed it to the state of Florida when he died in 1936, and the collection remains a monument to his sometimes shaky but always lordly taste...