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Miracle of Faith. Great lords like Godfrey of Bouillon mortgaged their estates to raise armies and took up the Cross to serve God's cause with their swords. Bohemond of Taranto, the impoverished son of the Norman conqueror of Sicily, sought to carve a kingdom of his own in the East. And they were joined by religious fanatics, adventurers and brigands who sought only pillage, murder and rape. In the Crusades, idealism and gangsterism were in harness...
...mile off Taranto, a fishing village on the instep of the Italian boot, the water was opalescent last July, as it always is when the Mediterranean sunlight hits the white bottom ooze and is reflected and refracted up to the surface. Thirty feet down, John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English, Master of Quincy House, sometime archeologist, onetime boxer and parachutist, and would-be aviator, was scuba diving...
Died. Andrew Browne Cunningham, 80, Viscount of Hyndhope, a crusty, klaxon-voiced sea dog who as Britain's Mediterranean commander in chief in World War II sank the pride of the Italian navy at Taranto and Cape Matapan, blocking Rommel's supply route and turning Mussolini's vaunted Mare Nostrum into "Cunningham's Pond"; of a heart attack; in London...
...centuries B.C., some of the finest artisans were to be found in the south, especially around Taranto, the last of the great Greek western colonies. Never before had craftsmen worked with such ingenuity or achieved greater elegance: earlier ornaments like the amber head, made 2,500 years ago (the color caption is in error), had a rather childlike innocence. The blue bronze hands may have been used to decorate some sort of handle; whatever their secret, they remain one artisan's lasting tribute to feminine grace. Of all the collections in the Taranto region, the richest was found...
Elder of the two is Fausto Pirandello, 58, son of Italy's late, famed Dramatist Luigi (Six Characters in Search of an Author) Pirandello, and one of Italy's most decorated and honored artists (first prize at the Sixth Quadriennale, Taranto Prize in 1949, Fiorino Prize in 1953 and 1956, Gold Medal from the President of the Republic last year). For his first one-man show in seven years. Pirandello lined the walls of Milan's new Galleria Blu with 20 paintings which showed that as an artist he is haunted by the great styles that make...