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Though she has an ancient Tuscan name, spry, sixtyish Mary Ramacciotti was born and bred in Baltimore. She joined the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Baltimore while still in her teens, stayed on to teach. Romance languages, eventually became dean of Notre Dame of Maryland college. Her present project began in 1955, when she met a bouncy, bustling Irish priest named Monsignor John Patrick Carroll-Abbing, a man with a well-known mission-"Boys' Towns" for Italy. During fund-raising drives for his boys, one question bothered him: What about the girls? When he met Mother Mary...
...MERCHANT OF PRATO, by Iris Origo. A biography of a 14th century Tuscan merchant reconstructed from bales of letters and ledgers. What could have become a dreary recital is in fact a shrewd look at an early capitalist, a fine piece of social history and a graceful piece of writing...
Architecturally, the Piazza della Signoria is a unique example of the harmony of three styles, separated in time by some 250 years. Dominating them all is the rough-stoned Palazzo Vecchio, with its narrow, Tuscan-Gothic windows. At right angles stands the triple-arched Loggia dei Lanzi (named for the German lancers quartered there by the Medici), which many critics consider the most beautiful secular building in Florence. Between the two is the short, narrow street which Mannerist Painter Giorgio di Vasari created as a tour de force in perspective, leading to the Arno...
...style line-and-staff system, authorized plant managers to run the works on the spot, set up executive committees in Milan to supervise the major decisions and divisions. On the technical side he held a lighter rein, giving considerable scope to Engineer Perio Giustiniani. a fellow Tuscan who has served with Faina as co-president since...
Personality & Family: Short and stocky, he is 68 but looks younger, has greying blond hair and pale blue eyes behind heavy spectacles, is a lively conversationalist and good orator, with the fine Tuscan accent that is highly respected in Italy. To give his children a normal family life, he has declined to move into the sumptuous Quirinal Palace, instead lives modestly in a four-room apartment in Rome with his second wife (his first wife died before the war) and their two children (aged 12 and 11), often walks to work. His hobby: model trains, which take up half...