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...Florence, Piero di Cosimo (he took the last name in honor of his teacher, Cosimo Roselli) was well regarded but not as illustrious as his contemporaries, Botticelli and Leonardo. In later, more grandiose times, he was not even well regarded. In the 20th Century, however, the wheel of fashion has coasted around to Piero. During the last twelve months three U. S. museums have acquired works of his and last week Manhattan's Schaeffer Galleries exhibited seven altogether, including The Discovery of Honey from the Worcester Museum. There was great talk of Piero's affinities with such meticulous...
...whose bodies were riddled with bullets. Investigation had scarcely begun when inspectors of the Sûreté Nationale (Scotland Yard) suddenly stepped in and took charge of the case. For the dead men were no mere murdered tourists but the famed exiled Italian anti-Fascist Brothers Carlo & Nello Roselli. For years in Paris they have published Giustizia e Libertá, organ of fugitive Italian liberals. To the Sûreté their killing had all the earmarks of a political murder. The bodies were found day after an article had appeared in the Roselli paper bemoaning the murder...
...Uncle Nitti, a full-blooded anti-Fascist was hounded out of Rome in 1925, later went to live in Paris. It was with Nephew Nitti that Carlo escaped from his island prison. To the Süreté last week Francesco Nitti declared: "The murder of the Roselli brothers could have been committed . . . only by experts in political crime...
...able to print information which the Rome Government found embarrassing." One kind of embarrassing information that Carlo continually published which very probably brought him to his death was stolen lists of daily instructions to the tightly controlled Italian press from the Propaganda Ministry. Few hours before the Roselli murders, last week in Manhattan Editor Girolamo Valenti of La Stampa Libera, also antiFascist. printed a five-month set of these instructions which he admitted came to him "from Paris...
...Fascisti?" will be the subject of a lecture by Dr. Bruno Roselli to be delivered in Steinert Hall, Boston, at 8 o'clock in the evening of Friday, February 16. Dr. Roselli is a professor of Italian at Vassar College and is a recognized authority on the situation in Italy today...