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...preacher of the 1490s who organized the Bonfires of the Vanities, in which many famous Renaissance works of art were destroyed. It features Botticelli's only signed and dated painting, Mystic Nativity, from the National Gallery in London, and commissions Filippino painted for Savonarola's most powerful follower, Francesco Valori. "Botticelli was personally influenced by Savonarola. There is a change in his style that would reflect his religious convictions," Nelson notes. "His work becomes more austere. The figures lose their pearls and gems and gold-trimmed hems." There is no evidence that Filippino was ever a follower of the hellfire...
...rages with persuasive intensity. Strozzi’s two daughters, Luisa (Alexa L.M. von Tobel ’06) and Prior Tomassa (Erica R. Lipez ’05) both act well; von Tobel, acrobatic and emotively melodramatic, is uniquely hilarious. Dan Wilner, as the rather quiet Cardinal Valori, also turns in a solid performance...
...Christian youth meeting earlier this month, as worshipers were milling around the church foyer, Gong suddenly walked up to Bruce, muttered a few words, pulled a knife and stabbed him just below the heart. The 37-year-old American was pronounced dead on arrival at the local hospital. Valori showed up minutes later, and as a last prayer, repeated the scripture she had been teaching her daughters...
Sitting in her apartment just days after her husband's murder, Valori does not cry. Her calm and even cheery demeanor puzzles her local friends, as does her desire that Gong?who will almost certainly face a swift execution by firing squad?be spared the death penalty. "In China, widows cry and scream for revenge for weeks," says one of Bruce's colleagues, who started attending church several years ago. "But Mrs. Morrison just sits and reads the Bible." Equally surprising is Valori's desire to remain in China. "I have spent all my married life here," she says...
...limit publicity about the murder, which can only embarrass China as it tries to polish its international image to help its bid to bring the Olympics to Beijing in 2008. "We like her very much, but the Christian woman should return to America," says a local policeman. For now, Valori sits quietly in the tiny apartment she wants to keep as home. Hannah, Victoria, Esther, Loice, Mary and Charity have said their prayers and are tucked into their bunk beds. The prized upright piano she and Bruce bought last November sits in her bedroom, ready for the morning's hymns...