Word: pitti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bibi is as much a part of Florence as the Pitti Palace-and, to the art world, as widely known. For almost 50 years "B.B." has been an authority respected above all others. Millionaire collectors have sought him out for merely an approving nod of some new purchase-and paid well for the nod. His theories on tactile values have become a part of the stock in trade of art experts and connoisseurs. His meticulous researches into Italian masters have influenced a whole generation's tourist guides and scholars' volumes...
Next day, the cast gave a consolation full-dress performance for itself behind locked doors. Stagehands, performers and hangers-on wept when it was over. The chorus sung by Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo and Pitti-Sing seemed peculiarly appropriate...
...most valued of all, the legendary Ponte Vecchio (see cut). Built in 1345, its roofed street was a promenade for Dante, Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci; in modern times, jewelry shops have succeeded its Renaissance goldsmiths. Over the bridge runs a covered passageway connecting the Uffizi Gallery with the Pitti Palace Museum...
Died. Jessie Bond, 89, last but one of the original Savoyards,* player of numerous Gilbert & Sullivan roles (including Iolanthe, Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, Edith in The Pirates of Penzance) ; in Worthing, England. She retired in 1896. Only surviving Savoyard: Durward Lely of Glasgow...
...This was the 18th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome, and after the genial conference the two men went out on the balcony and waved to the multitude. Close about them stood valets in medieval costume. The two drove out to a formal luncheon, then to the Pitti Palace, where hangs the lusher art of the Renaissance-the good fleshy art of Titian, Raphael and Rubens, which Adolf Hitler prefers to delicate primitives. There, in an air of preciousness, the two were regaled with chamber music...