Word: romana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Woman of Rome (Ponti-DeLaurentiis; D.C.A.). In the novel by Italy's Alberto Moravia, the most important thing about La Romana is that she is a dark beauty who loves men and money. In the movie version, the most important thing about her is that she is played by Gina Lollobrigida. Gina's mother, an impoverished ex-model, leads her daughter into her old profession, hoping that it will lead Gina into an older and more profitable one. Mother proudly proclaims that "there was not a figure like [Gina's] in all Rome." As the movie opens...
...wrong," says Novelist Treece flatly. He admits that his own hard-boiled debunking may be no less wrong, but Treece at least tunes his legend to the barbaric realities of 6th century Britain, with its Saxon seawolf marauders, its roving robber bands, its shattered relics of the Pax Romana, its poor riven land where man's hand was at his neighbor's pocket or throat...
WHAT may be the West's oldest painting of the Madonna has been rediscovered in Rome's Church of Santa Francesca Romana. An expert restorer named Pico Cellini found the panel (right) under a 13th century Tuscan canvas of the same subject, which he had been commissioned to clean...
...Britain Conquered!" Acta began by reporting the year 55 B.C. because there was plenty going on then. CLASSIS ROMANA INGENS PARATUR (BIG ROMAN ARMADA GETTING READY), Screamed its headlines. "Quando Caesar ad Britanniam navigaturus est?" (When will Caesar sail for Britain?) Three issues later, Acta bannered BRITANNIA VICTA! (BRITAIN CONQUERED'). By last week, the editors were up to 49 B.C. Gaul had been subdued. Caesar had crossed the Rubicon...