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MUSSOLINI (304 pp.)-Paolo Monelli-Vanguard...
With a bit of overstatement, Defense Minister Paolo Emilio Taviani exclaimed: "We have had a real revolution here!" It was not a revolution, for there had been no violent upsets in the party centers of power; it was rather an overhauling, a rejuvenation. Trends and processes that had been going on for months came to fruition at Naples. There was. undeniably, some moaning over past mistakes, but the unifying theme was: How can democracy in Italy be strengthened, how can Communism be thwarted...
...started in 1952 when a wealthy Italian contractor named Paolo Masieri commissioned Architect Wright to design a building as a memorial to Masieri's son Angelo, killed in an automobile accident in the U.S. The new palazzo was to be used as a study center and quarters for architectural students. A site was chosen on the Grand Canal between the magnificent 15th century Ca' Foscari, once a residence of the doges, and the 16th century Palazzo Balbi. The house which Wright's palazzo would replace is a dingy brownstone residence...
...Paolo Tamburella, the result is an amiable, ingratiating human comedy with overtones of A Bell for Adano and The Little World of Don Camilla...
When he gets back to Carrara, Paolo Buttini plans to try a new medium. He thinks he is about ready to start working in oils. In about two years, Paolo thinks, "I will really have something to show people...