Word: siena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very satisfying book unless you are either a passionate pilgrim or a fervent admirer of the sheer literary skill of slender, drooping, cynical Mr. Huxley. Here he is less cynical than usual, for he is traveling, enjoying himself, not trying particularly to be clever. In Rotterdam, Mantua, Siena, Munich, Monte Carlo, he idly employs his notebook to jot notes which will keep his warm coat of culture sleek and glossy. He takes the usual liberties?writing about his spectacles, the books he takes, Why Not Stay Home, etc.?but still he is Mr. A. Huxley, one of the more...
...said: "Washington was one of ten children. Napoleon was one of 13, Shakespeare one of eight. Sir Walter Secit one of 11, Fenimore Cooper one of 12. Tennyson one of 12, Carlyle one of ten, Phillips Brooks one of nine, Cardinal O'Connell one of 11. St. Catherine of Siena, one of the greatest women of her day and generation, was one of 22, and Franklin, whom all Americans rightly honor, was the tenth child of a family...
...history of Italian art as annual professor at the Classical School in Rome, which meanwhile had been merged with the American Academy. Dean Edgell has given courses at Harvard on the history of mediaeval, Renaissance, and modern art, and recently lectured at the Lowell Institute on the painters of Siena. He is a member of the Archaeological Institute of America...