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Early in the xyth century, a Roman nobleman commissioned three famed artists of the day to paint their versions of Ecce Homo (Pilate presenting Christ to the mob). He bought the one that pleased him best, by Lodovico Cigoli, and eventually it passed to the Pitti Palace at Florence. Another version, by Domenico Passignano, is lost. The third, by the great Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, also disappeared...
...Means Today. Meeting in the gilded and brocaded halls of the Pitti Palace, delegates presented a total of 86 new proposals. Among them: a request to draw up a list of sources for an economic history from the 11th to the 16th Centuries, a suggestion that UNESCO collect material on teaching evolutionary biology...
...Pitti-Sing: Corroborative detail indeed! Corroborative fiddlestick...
...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...