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Before then, Builder Zingone plans to head-quite literally-for the hills. Pitting pragmatism against civic pride, he is planning a residential center in the Tuscan highlands outside Florence on the theory that "after the floods last fall, Florentines would welcome a place to live safe up in the hills...
...dead monarchy that the campaign has even been enlivened by a Dusseldorf human-relations counselor, Dr. Theodor Rudolf Pachmann, who last month petitioned for recognition as the only legitimate heir of Emperor Franz Josef. His ground: that his father was born in 1883 to a secret marriage between a Tuscan princess and Crown Prince Rudolf...
Sandra. "These shadows . . . the sifting of ashes of a dead past." Thus whisper the winds of melancholy around a decaying palazzo in the Tuscan town of Volterra, where Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers, The Leopard) installs Claudia Cardinale as resident tragedienne. In Visconti's modern variations on the Electra theme, Claudia struggles with a role that requires her, at times, to slip off the mantle of Greek tragedy and slip into something like a bath towel...
...Meticulous Lucidity. Experienced in luminous Tuscan, this passage magically induces the sense of mystical identity with deity, the supreme religious experience. No more complex effect of poetry has ever been conceived, yet Dante achieves it with simple means. He is always simple, vigorous, lucid. His descriptions are like paintings by Giotto: childlike in their simplicity yet sculptural in their power-when the shades approach him through the gloom of Dis, for instance, they "sharpen their brows" and peer at him "as an old tailor peers at the eye of a needle...
Those Cursed Tuscans is a white-hot, sometimes overwrought exposition of Malaparte's philosophy and an apologia, really, for his way of life. As far as he is concerned, it was a mistake to unite Italy, for unification brought spare, lean and hungry Tuscans into contact with a lot of softhearted, overemotional Italians. "The Tuscans aren't tenors. They speak: they don't sing. They don't wash out their throats with beautiful Italian phrases." The whole history of Tuscany, thinks Malaparte, can be expressed in a common Tuscan curse: "To hell with...