Word: sassetti
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...rebellions-including, in some simplified versions of U.S. history, the violent tax protests that brought on the U.S. Revolution. In the light of such a past, there seemed a docile if grudging inevitability about the way most U.S. taxpayers shuffled in to pay up. Chicagoan Robert Sassetti. who as a public accountant has plenty of opportunity to observe taxpayers, thinks: "Most people now have a much more sober attitude toward income taxes than they used to have. They seem to want to support the Government.The nation is growing up to realize that we have a good thing here...
Among the greatest single pieces are Ghirlandajo's portrait of Francesco Sassetti (banking partner of de Medici) and his son, seen in his bank at Lyons, against a background of harbor and water front; a Titian representing the Madonna and Infant Christ; Piero di Cosimo's picture of Hylas, Hercules' favorite, discovered in a meadow by water nymphs...
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