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...medieval councils of Constance and Pisa," he said, "the reformers were so successful that the conservative opposition was silenced. Yet within 30 years all work of these councils seemed to evaporate. Given the present conservation of the Italian, South American, and Spanish Churches, too much success too fast will only backfire...
...Olde. Water- in canals, lagoons, fountains - is "an excellent prop"; and arcades such as those flank ing Pisa's Borgo Stretto and Bern's Spitalgasse or covering Istanbul's Grand Bazaar provide not only protection from both sun and rain but an interesting play of light and shadow...
...girl stop in Rome?" There is passion : "Have you ever made love to the tune of The Stars and Stripes Forever? "There is wisdom: "For every woman on earth there is only one man." There is culture: the Colosseum, the Villa of the Monsters, the Leaning Tower of Pisa...
...American cities," continues Gaya-Nuňo, "which 50 years ago were little more than a set for a western-a street, some bars, horses and cowboys-now have museums far superior to those in Amiens or Pisa." At the same time, the big museums, such as Manhattan's Metropolitan, "are just about to surpass definitively the great museums of Europe, just as the small ones surpassed their European counterparts a long time...
...article of faith, most of the Romantics were diary keepers; with the telephone yet to be invented, they were great letter writers. The letters and the diaries are Biographer Bigland's chief sources. Thus the reader can get detailed information on who was calling on the Shelleys in Pisa and who was snubbing them in Rome. Of the atmosphere in Europe that perhaps called the poets into being and that was certainly given a whole new range of colors by them, there is little in this genteel biography. In her account, Author Bigland has cruelly caged two skylarks...