Word: silvestris
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...been a panic in Milan 16 years ago. Cause of that panic was the fact that a certain Prof. Cavenaghi had discovered that Leonardo Da Vinci's famed Last Supper was crumbling away. The immortal paint was drying from the canvas. Cavenaghi restored it. Recently another Professor, one Silvestri, noticed while dusting the picture that many parts untouched by Cavenaghi were in like danger of drying, of crumbling. He set himself to perform what Cavenaghi had overlooked. For many weeks, while visitors came, stared, departed, he delicately dabbed and rubbed, last week successfully completed his restoration...