Word: ravenna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fable, Borges imagines Droc-tulft, a barbarian, fighting against the Romans at the siege of Ravenna. When Droctulft's eyes fix on the city he is helping to storm, he sees for the first time "a whole that is complex and yet without disorder. He knows that in the city he will be a dog or a child, and that he will not even begin to understand it, but that it is worth more than his god and his sworn faith and the German marshes." Droctulft deserts and dies fighting for dying Rome. "He was not a traitor," writes...
...barbarian heartland of Europe. He encouraged one monk, Alcuin, to make script more readable; Carolingian minuscule is still the foundation for the text type used in present-day printing. He built an octagonal chapel that still stands in Aachen, along the lines of the mosaic-coated San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. He even stole marble columns from Ravenna to make his church more authentic...
...DESERT. Director Michelangelo Antonioni's first color film is a provocative, painterly essay on alienation in a young wife (Monica Vitti) whose troubles appear to be a byproduct of heavy industry in Ravenna...
...DESERT. Monica Vitti goes soul-searching amid the blighted landscape of industrial Ravenna as a neurotic young wife whose alienation is stunningly visualized in Director Michelangelo Antonioni's first color film...
...DESERT. The bleak beauty of industrial Ravenna fills Director Michelangelo Antonioni's (L'Avventura) first color film -a provocative, painterly essay on alienation in a young wife (Monica Vitti...