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...image of the hero on horseback -human intelligence bending brute nature to its command-was central to Renaissance art, and its main antique prototypes were the Marcus Aurelius, an equestrian statue in Pavia called the Re-gisole (long since destroyed) and the San Marco group. Almost all the major artists of the Renaissance, from Pisanello in the 15th century to Giambologna in the 16th, consulted the Venice horses; when Leonardo da Vinci was faced with the problem of designing a horseback monument to the Milanese warrior Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, he took them as his starting point, varying their massive poses...
...marble, smoothed and polished by generations of research. In fact, its surface is pocked with holes left by artists whose names, but very little of whose work, survive. Next to nothing is known about their lives and personalities. One of these was Michel ino da Besozzo, who came from Pavia and became the leading artist in early 15th century Milan. Nearly all Michelino's work is lost, but most of what remains was recently bought by New York's Pierpont Morgan Library. It consists of a tiny (6¾ in. by 4¾ in.) prayerbook, containing 22 miniatures...
...native of Milan, Italy, Gorini, who in 41, graduated from the University Pavia with honors in, 1925 and in 1927 of a prize for advanced work in organic chemistry. His research career was decided for 15 years before and during third War II because his opposition the fascist Italian government made academic career impossible...
...granted in France last year, only 16,000 went to Frenchmen and the rest to foreigners, notably Americans. The West Germans, by latest count, spend $111 million a year more in fees to use foreign licenses than they collect from their own licenses abroad. Italy's University of Pavia found that less than one-third of 965 companies it surveyed engaged in any research...
Though DDT has worked wonders, malaria has proved such a versatile foe that WHO researchers are going to extraordinary lengths to combat the mosquitoes that carry it. In Pavia, Italy, they are practicing artificial insemination on mosquitoes to overcome the insects' natural shyness about reproducing in captivity...