Word: sforza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike in Naples last week. Object: to protest once more against the British-U.S. alliance with dilapidated little King Vittorio Emanuele III and Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Specifcally, Italian antiFascists felt that Winston Churchill had let them down again in his recent declaration of Allied policy. Said Count Carlo Sforza : "In London they seem so busy mistrusting antiFascism that they forget . . . thousands of Fascists . . . eager to stab Britain and the U.S.A. in the back...
Last week in faultless Italian, the Mayor of the world's biggest city broadcast to Italy. Addressing Count Sforza (famed anti-Badoglio Liberal) as "my dear friend," Fiorello LaGuardia said: "We are at a loss here to understand the political situation in Italy. ... The policy of our Government ... is that . . . the form of permanent Government to be adopted, and the economy of the country, are to be left entirely to the decision of the people of Italy. . . . Inasmuch as a change is to be made, it should be made without delay. ... It should not be hampered by anything related...
...shattered by German bombs, 120 Italian delegates met after two decades of silence, privation and exile. The majority came from the liberated south, but many had made their way from the Nazi-occupied regions. They represented six Italian parties: the Party of Action, headed by grey-haired Count Carlo Sforza; the Christian Democrats (mainly peasants); the Socialists; the Liberals, headed by Philosopher-Senator Benedetto Croce; the Communists; the little-known Democratic Labor Party...
...from Rome to Bari, and signed by representatives of the six parties, gave an account of guerrilla activities, of sabotage and strikes organized by the underground Italian Committee of Liberation in Nazi-occupied territory, complained bitterly that "in this fight, the Government [of Marshal Badoglio] is not participating." Count Sforza accused the Marshal of removing secondary figures but protecting those principally responsible for Fascism's misdeeds. He concluded: "To save Italy, the King and his most important accomplices must be eliminated...
...first patron was Lorenzo de' Medici, lavish ruler of Florence. But Leonardo served himself miserably: he was ridden by a perfectionism which prevented him from finishing a work. Even the patient Lorenzo finally let his artist go-to Milan, where he served the great Duke Ludovico Sforza. There Leonardo ranged through "interior decoration, gadget design, city planning, court painting and sculpture. His painter's mind was increasingly and almost ruinously engaged by intellectual curiosity about the physical world. Leonardo ended by turning from art to science. His very painting was a scientific search-the plants and rocks...