Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forgotten that Keats died in Rome. It was only by accident last night while lingering in the Piazza Di Spagna--the center of life of the old Papal Rome--that my eye wandered from the beautiful fountain of the "Baracaccia" to an inscription in Italian and English on the side of an old red building saying that here in 1822 the young English poet died...
...Back in Rome was Mussolini preparing a brotherly welcome for Nazi Air Minister Colonel-General Hermann Goring who was all set for a cozy three-hour chat. Because the meeting was "unofficial" no communique was published by II Duce but the capitals of Europe were soon buzzing with reports that Italy had promised to support eventual Nazi domination in Austria; that the two bigwigs had talked freely about their most pressing common problem, Spain; had discussed schemes for helping each other to achieve "economic independence...
Meanwhile in Rome, Benito Mussolini wielded a spade in heavy rain last week, planted three pines to mark the site of Italy's 1941 World exhibition on the road to Rome's seaport, Ostia. Work began at once on the exhibition's buildings which will be permanent, will become a new suburb of Rome after the show is over...
...cannot write too enthusiastically about these meetings with Mr. Santayana. I came to discuss a thesis on his philosophy but I've stayed to be charmed by his cordiality, his wit and his kindness. He lives alone here in Rome in modest rooms on the top floor of the Hotel Bristol. When I first saw him he was with Mr. Daniel Cory, his assistant, and was dressed in a dressing gown and slippers, as he wrote me I would find him. One day perhaps I shall send you an account of the more serious aspect of our conversations but suffice...
...painting to sculpture because he liked the physical exertion of carving. At 17, he decided he was old enough to enlist in the British Army but that year the War ended. He left home, got along for ten years on a continuous succession of scholarships. As a student in Rome he lived in a thieves' den. In Naples he was nearly murdered. In 1927 he felt that his career was launched at last when a handful of important people came to his first show...