Word: porta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strolling through his gardens near Pope Leo XIII's former summer residence (now the Vatican radio station), Pope John XXIII came upon the highest point in Vatican City, admired the vista and the ancient Tower of Porta Pertusa. "What a pity," he sighed, as he saw the ramshackle remains of the 60-foot tower. "This is such a lovely place." Within weeks, workmen began restoring the 500-year-old structure, which will be equipped with an elevator for what insiders said would become the Pontiff's summer retreat for meditation and for private audiences with relatives and intimates...
...Rome, a crowd including 50 parliamentary Deputies led by tough, balding Communist Giancarlo Pajetta and Republican Ludovico Camangi marched to Porta San Paolo to lay a wreath on the Partisan Plaque, which commemorates Italian resistance to the Fascists during World War II. The celere, under orders to permit no demonstrations of any kind, quickly moved to disperse the mob. The crowd charged the police, heaving bricks and wielding staves. Then a troop of mounted carabinieri rode into...
Italian Music in the Age of Exploration (The Fleetwood Singers; Lyrichord. stereo). Skillful, spirited performances of madrigals by a dozen all-but-forgotten composers of the 16th century. The names include Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Costanzo Porta and Gioseppe Caimo, and the themes have to do with the hazards of love. The music, performed by seven singers with occasional guitar and harpsichord accompaniment, has wit moments of placid beauty, and a colorfully antique...
...hard at work on a vast vinylite-and-cement mural, depicting scenes from Genesis. Equally inspired by Rome is Harvard-trained Henry Millon, 33, art historian and architect. "I have spent hours staring at St. Peter's," says he, "and I've now decided that Delia Porta was wrong in his elevation of the curve of the dome. It may have all kinds of effect on my work." Rome has also transformed Princeton-bred Musician John Eaton 24, who in his younger days barnstormed the U.S. with a jazz combo. Eaton has set John Donne's sonnets...