Word: piacenza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nino Cerruti. It took the considerable persuasive powers of Sergio Galeotti, then 25 and a draftsman in a leading Milan architectural firm, to lure Armani from the kind of early middle-aged complacency he was slipping into. Armani, the second of three children of a transport-company manager in Piacenza, 40 miles southeast of Milan, grew up during World War II and remembers waking up screaming from nightmares about air raids. A childhood like that requires a heavy investment in security, which his parents Ugo and Maria did their best to provide...
Giorgio's grandfather Lodovico had a shop in Piacenza where, his grandson recalls, "he made wigs in the 19th century style, many for the local theater. He took me backstage with him. I was fascinated." Giorgio's parents diverted him from dreams of the lively arts and into medical school, which he endured for three years before surrendering to the inevitable military service and a three-year hitch as a medical assistant. Back in civvies in 1954, he took a job, "almost by accident," with La Rinascente, one of Italy's largest department-store chains. He helped...
...letter of 1535 in which Pope Paul III hires "our beloved son, Michelangelo" as architect, sculptor and painter for the unfinished church of St. Peter's. As part payment, the Pope grants the young painter all the tolls from a Po River ferry crossing near Piacenza for life...