Word: pisa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After an autumn walk along the Arno in Florence he wrote his Ode to the West Wind; in Pisa The Cloud and To a Skylark...
...Naples, Rome, Florence and Pisa, though ostracized by such respectable English tourists as Walter Savage Landor, Shelley wrote the poetry by which he is best remembered. He thought Keats "a rival who will surpass me" and invited the dying poet to join him; Keats was touched but had enough sense not to. After the "Peterloo massacre" of working people in Manchester, Shelley wrote his Mask of Anarchy, a revolutionary poem of memorable drive...
Salvemini received his Ph.D. at the University of Florence, Italy. He was a member of the Italian Parliament from 1919 to 1921. After teaching at the University of Messina, the University of Pisa, the University of Florence, and other institutions in Italy, he came to America in 1932. Since 1933, he has been the de Bosts lecturer here, sandwiching in lectures at other universities, including Yale University and the University of Chicago. He was naturalized...
...Pisa, the famed Leaning Tower was lopsided as ever, but the medieval cloister and burial ground, Campo Santo (one star), had its roof destroyed, ruining the frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli...
...92nd. It is recorded that the division was activated in October 1942 and, under its white commander, Major General Edward Mallory Almond, and key white officers, packed off to Italy last summer. Three weeks after their arrival in Italy they were assigned to the front, east of Pisa...