Word: ravenna
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BORN: May 10, 1947, Muskegon EDUCATION: Holton High School, diploma, 1965 FAMILY: Wife, Jennifer; three children RELIGION: United Methodist MILITARY: Air Force, 1965-70 OCCUPATION: Business-services-facility technician POLITICAL CAREER: Constable of Holton Township, 1970-78 ADDRESS: 4638 Truman Road, Ravenna...
...late as the sixth century A.D., in a mosaic in Ravenna depicting the Last Judgment, the devil was still portrayed as a haloed, winged being, standing at the left hand of Christ. Satan is dressed in blue, not red, robes. (Red was the color of the upper ether, closest to God, from which Satan was expelled; blue, the color of the closest heaven humankind could see.) By the Middle Ages, however, Satan had become a beast. His horns and hooves come from his commingling with beliefs banished by a victorious Christianity. The devil's appurtenances derive from the great Greek...
...fame only last spring, when his racing yacht, Il Moro di Venezia, defied sailing experts and reached the finals in the America's Cup. Il Moro's success cast Gardini as the personification of Italian style, an image especially sweet for a man whose childhood on a farm in Ravenna earned him the lifelong nickname "il contadino," the peasant...
Gardini's upbringing led him to agricultural college; afterward he joined the firm of Ravenna grain dealer Serafino Ferruzzi. His charm, ambition and business flair brought him rapid promotion -- as well as marriage in 1957 to the boss's eldest daughter, Idina, which guaranteed that he would inherit company leadership from Ferruzzi, who died...