Word: perugia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only Hope. To some of the Americans planning to enroll this fall. Italy is the only hope. One such group, 105 students under the auspices of the Italo-American foundation, flew to Perugia last week in the face of the ban. Each had paid $4,600 for air fare, a summer course in Italian at Perugia, and counseling services. Although offered the opportunity to withdraw from the program, all 105 decided to see it through. Says Marty Bergman. 22. an Oberlin graduate who was turned down by 23 U.S. medical schools but has been accepted by the University...
...contrast, the Communists have built up a surprisingly good record as conscientious, honest administrators in running such Red Belt towns as Ferrara, Modena, Perugia, Siena and Pisa. In keeping with Communist practice, Novelli will turn over his mayor's salary to the party and receive back a stipend equivalent to the wages of a skilled factory worker...
Brother Sun, Sister Moon covers only a short period of the saint's life; his return from the war between Assisi and the rival town of Perugia, his subsequent illness and conversion, the rebuilding of the ruined church of San Damiano, and his trip to Rome to seek advice from Pope Innocent III. Given this limited time-span and the painstaking efforts Zeffirelli makes to focus on the reasons for Francis's conduct, he explains astonishingly little of what was happening in twelfth-century Italy, both according to historical fact and to his own fiction. The war could...
From an historical perspective, politically-concerned art groups are not a new phenomenon. The guild system, begun in Italy in 1286 in the Umbrian village of Perugia, resulted from the first pressures for social and professional organization. Civic rights were dependent on membership in these guilds by 1293, and the guild was like a father watching over the education of his son: the guild supervised the artist's religion, educational apprenticeships, contracts and relationships to patrons, and even had the power of punishment. By the 1400s artists like Brunelleschi in Florence asserted freedom against the guilds...