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Actionist Deputy Piero Calamandrei, rector of Florence University, told a Boccaccio-flavored anecdote to express his opposition to the contradictions of a Constitution which proclaimed both religious equality and the preferential position of one faith: "This reminds me of the old man in Florence who had two mistresses, one young and the other old. The man's hair was partly black, partly grey. Each of his mistresses wanted him completely for herself. So the young mistress tore out all his grey hair, while the old one tore out all the black. The poor man's head of course...
...Lisbon correspondent, Piero Saporiti, his wife, their belongings, and a lame dog, turned up in Paris a few weeks ago somewhat the worse for wear. They had been kicked out of Portugal because Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar disapproved of TIME's July 22nd cover story about himself and his regime...
...Renaissance man's splendid sensual joy and lust for life, as expressed by the 16th-Century Italian painter, Piero di Cosimo, in time degenerated into the jaded 19th-Century taste that produced Manet's famed "boy-like courtesan," Olympia...
...added to the Museum collections were an Assyrian marble bas-relief of the 9th century B.C.; from the Antioch expedition conducted by a group of American universities and museums, a number of mosaics, among them a pool which may be installed in the Museum court; an unfinished painting by Piero di Cosimo, 15th century Florentine master, entitled "The Misfortunes of Silenus;" and a Siamese head of Buddha, in wood, of the 13th or 14th century, from the well-known Eumorfopoulos Collection, in London...
Debussy: Iberia (Piero Coppola and Paris Conservatory Orchestra; Victor: five sides) and Strauss: Death and Tranfiguration (Albert Coates and London Symphony Orchestra; Victor: six sides...