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...little as $50 per month. Italian schools and universities specialize in giving courses in history, music, literature, and fine arts. The University Summer Courses in Aquila, the University of Florence, the Italian University for Foreigners in Perugia, the University of Pisa, the Societa Dante Alighieri, and the University of Urbino give courses in late July about local art treasurers. Perugia and Pisa Universities offer special instruction on Etruscan antiquities...
Musolino's last act as a free man was the posting of a letter to his brother enclosing some money to buy candles for a church altar. Headed for Urbino with an umbrella in one hand and a knapsack on his back, he was spotted by two carabinieri and captured when his foot caught in a tangle of barbed wire. Sent to prison for life, he was declared insane twelve years later. Last week, he died in Reggio Calabria's mental hospital...
...mathematician, Piero della Francesca (circa 1418-92). Legend has it that Piero was a fatherless boy who took the name of his mother Francesca. He studied at Florence, returned to Borgo San Sepolcro to get his first major commission, traveled through Italy painting in Rimini, Ferrara, Rome, Arezzo and Urbino, then settled down to spend his last 14 years in his native town compiling two mathematical treatises. Latterday Sansepolcrans prided themselves on owning three of Piero's major works, and kept alive the hope that more would one day come to light...
...Mussolini, Kesselring writes: "It was only to be expected that as the war went on the Italians would try to make things easier for themselves by ratting to the other side." Italian "treachery" notwithstanding, he claims and probably deserves credit for sparing such culturally rich towns as Orvieto, Perugia, Urbino, Siena, Padua, Ravenna and Venice from military destruction. He admits "the destruction of the wonderful [Florentine] bridges across the Arno." As for the famed monastery of Monte Cassino, Kesselring stoutly denies that the German armies ever put it to military...
When Severino graduated last summer, it looked for a while as though his blooming artistic career might be cut cruelly short. His father, a poor tenant farmer, could not afford the $235, for tuition and expenses, to send Severino to art school in nearby Urbino (where Raphael was born in 1483). Rome Art Dealer Gaetano Chiurazzi, informed of Severino's plight, offered his gallery for a show of Severino's drawings plus a sampling of the most distinguished works of the Severino School, all proceeds to go to the artists to "study and grow...