Word: trasimeno
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...predella (base) of the Cortona Annunciation are each in themselves small hymns of praise to the Virgin. A small section in the panel of Mary's Visit to Elizabeth (see p. 34) made art history. It is the first identifiable landscape in Italian painting, a view of Lake Trasimeno as seen from Cortona...
...center a German line around Lake Trasimeno was breached and the terraced town of Cortona, ancient headquarters of the Etruscans, was in Allied gun sights. On the Adriatic coast British advances resumed after heavy fighting, reached to within nine miles of the port of Ancona...
...their stand. in the center near Lake Trasimeno, where Hannibal once (217 B.C.) bloodily wiped out a Roman army under Flaminius, seemed only temporary. They had been providentially helped by days of rain that gummed down the pursuit, forced the unopposed Allied air fleet to drop from more than 2,000 sorties daily to a piddling...
...Franz Liszt enters and plays his certainly not mechanical piano until the poet is in an ecstasy. Sometimes, instead, come very charming women. Signorina Marie Melato, popular actress, was entertained at Gardonne while the pilgrims waited at Assisi last week, and later she accompanied Signor D'Annunzio to Trasimeno where they were the guests of the Marchioness Guglielmi...
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