Word: pisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasures of Pisa's leading gallery, the Museo Civico, including Pisan sculpture of the 14th and 18th Centuries, Flemish and Florentine tapestries, paintings by Gentile da Fabriano, and Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi...
Words of concern appeared in the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "[May the belligerents] reflect seriously upon the moral consequences of deliberate destruction of Pisan monuments...
...window casements) at $598 to $19,049. And Mr. Hammer had hustled down to Gimbels' groaning floor, and confidently expected eager buyers to snap up a Louis XII carved walnut dresser ($269), a pair of carved 17th-Century Italian stone urns ($598), a suit of 16th-Century Pisan armor ($2,397), Van Dyck's portrait of England's Queen Henrietta Maria...
Trelawny also met Byron. Yachting, Trelawny found, was almost as popular among the Pisan expatriates as poetry and revolution. He got a boatbuilder friend to construct the Bolivar for Byron, the Ariel for Shelley. One day Shelley, a very bad sailor, sailed off with two friends and copies of Sophocles and Keats. A few days later their bodies were washed ashore. Trelawny built more funeral pyres. While Byron and Leigh Hunt tossed incense, salt, sugar and wine, Trelawny lit the flames under Shelley's fish-eaten, livid corpse. Said Trelawny: "I restore to nature, through fire, the elements...