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...decade a power to be reckoned with by churchmen who wanted to see the Pope. Though he has befriended and backed pastoral Cardinals like Luciani and Pappalardo, Benelli had never held a pastoral post until Paul VI named him to the See of Florence in 1977. A brusque Tuscan with a deceptively cherubic face, Benelli has earned good marks during his 16 months in Communist-governed Florence. Even during his years as Pope Paul's front-office strong arm, he served as an able conciliator in several sharp internal church disputes. He has trouble delegating authority?a distinct problem...
...those who stay, the ideal lifestyle has undergone a kind of genteel greening. There is a new concern about ecology, with Susanna Agnelli (sister of Fiat President Gianni) continuing to lead a campaign to preserve the wildlife of Porto Santo Stefano, the Tuscan coastal town that she serves as mayor. Rome Art Dealer Derna Querel recalls meeting several young members of the Frescobaldi and Antinori wine families who boasted of having joined in a grape harvest, including barefoot trampling of the fruit. In Rome last Christmas, a financially strapped family of the nobility threw a picnic in their palazzo...
...idea of a feminine sensibility-fluffy, vaporous, pink-and-white-retreats before most of the work in this show, the sense of female experience does not. That theme is announced almost at once, in the work of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652), the daughter of a well-known Tuscan painter, who became, as Nochlin puts it, "the first woman in the history of Western art to make a significant and undeniably important contribution to the art of her time." Gentileschi's Susanna and the Elders (1610) is a work of staggering precocity, painted when she was 17. Beauty spied...
...ordeal. A Rome constituency elected Fiat Industrial Aristocrat Umberto Agnelli to the Senate as a Christian Democrat, while the small Republican Party successfully fielded his sister Susanna Agnelli, a first-time Deputy who is also mayor of Porto Santo Stefano, a fashionable resort town on the Tuscan coast...
...right wing, which prefers confrontation rather than compromise with the Communists, largely prevailed. Former Premier Amintore Fanfani, 68, was elected president of the party's national council, an honorary post that would give him a handy platform for the campaign. A tough scrapper, the self-styled "Tuscan Pony" likes nothing better than a tussle with the Communists, whose party organ L'Unita huffily described his resurrection as "partly pathetic and partly provocative." While Fanfani makes his pitch to voters on the right, beleaguered Premier Moro, 59, and Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, 64, will try to keep the Christian...