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Michael Angelo Buonarotti's career was one of incredible energy. Surrounded by the treachery and jealousies of the Renaissance, he preserved his life and his artistic integrity for nearly 90 years. While yet in his 20's he had done the Pieta of St. Peter's, the David of Florence, had become a national figure and a centre of dissension. When he was a boy, Lorenzo de' Medici was his patron, and his intermittent allegiance to that family was finally commemorated in the dreamy Medici Chapel of San Lorenzo. Six Popes employed him. An ever-unfinished undertaking for a tomb...
Later, in the chapel of the Pieta, Pius XI addressed the religious brotherhoods of Rome, entrusting to them the care of the Holy Door and explaining its significance as the symbol of the eternal door of the City of God. Said he: "We hope the words 'Glory to God and on earth, peace, good will toward men,' will come true. May this Holy Year bring peace to the mind and peace to the heart and peace to the will." Then he blessed his listeners and distributed among them jubilee med; showing the dome of St. Peter...
Aria, "Ah pieta,. Signori miei!" from the opera "Don Giovanni." Signor Tavecchia...
...PIETA.- The club picture will be taken back of Sever on Monday, June...
...public sale of tickets for the PiEta play, "The Alcayde," begins today. Tickets for the performances in Brattle Hall, Saturday, May 9, and Monday, May 11, are on sale at Thurston's; for the performance in Copley Hall, Wednesday, May 13, at Herrick's, Clough and Shackley's, and the Women's Educational and Industrial Union. The price...