Word: pisani
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five Piccirilli brothers of The Bronx are the world's greatest team of sculptors. But, like the Pisani of the 13th Century, they prefer to think of themselves as "masters of stone." As such, they make most of their money anonymously converting into their own Italian marble the clay and plaster models of less handy and sometimes more famed U. S. sculptors. Last week, for probably the first time in Piccirilli history, someone else had the job of executing work by a Piccirilli...
...burst into huzzahs and swept police aside in a scramble toward the Leader. Four tall gondoliers pounced on small Benito Mussolini, raised him shoul der high and carried him to his motor car. Cynics observed: "Those gondoliers were detectives!" Zipping out of Venice, 77 Duce made for historic Villa Pisani once used by Napoleon. In Chancellor Hitler's honor it had been spruced up with furniture from Venice's old Royal Palace, staffed by royal servants, some of whom had served German Emperor Wilhelm II when he visited King Victor Emmanuel III in Venice just before...