Word: riccardi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From sleepy medieval Innsbruck the local Italian consul, Signer Riccardi, telephoned tempestuously last week to Rome. Austrian students, he cried, had just wrenched down the flag of Italy from its staff before his window. The vandals! The Austrian swine! They were tearing the tricolor to tatters, spitting on it, fouling it -the voice of helpless Consul Riccardi became a scream. At Rome, according to authoritative reports, Signer Mussolini himself took up his telephone and put searching questions to excited Consul Riccardi. Meanwhile the police of Innsbruck, clubbing right and left, had scattered the mob of flag snatchers after arresting eight...
...been placed in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum. The fresco is a remarkable copy of a section of the larger work, painted in 1459 by Bonzzo Gozzoli of the Florentine School, on the walls of the chapel in the Medici Palace, now known as the Riccardi Palace, in Florence. It represents "Lorenzo the Magnificent," mounted on a richly caparisoned white horse at the head of "The Procesion of the Magi." He wears a yellow and gold tunic with red sleeves, red silk tights, and, on his flowing curls; a jeweled cap surmounted by a crown. Knights...