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...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...
...himself and for Croce, Sforza indicated a willingness to join the Government-but only if the King were thrown out. A Regency which skipped Crown Prince Umberto and alighted on the six-year-old Prince of Naples might be acceptable, he said, pending the day when all of Italy could decide on a monarchical or republican government. But what the beaten and heartsick people of Italy needed most of all, said Sforza, was at least one dynamic and truly democratic act that would fan the flames of hope and national pride. That act, he plainly implied, was abdication...
Badoglio was turned down by Sforza, by Croce, and by Dr. Orangio Ruiz, chairman of the Fronte Nazionale di Liberazione, which includes the six patriot and "opposition" parties. The meaning seemed clear: the King must go. That was the Marshal's message when he returned to the King's villa...