Word: vecchio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dedicated but visionary former mayor of Florence, who once brought his city to the edge of bankruptcy by his lavish program of public works, had worked night and day to compile his volatile guest list. When the conference began in Florence's 600-year-old Palazzo Vecchio. just about everyone invited was there, including eleven ambassadors. Even Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani and President Giovanni Gronchi agreed to show up to dramatize Italy's self-appointed role in the Mediterranean as a bridge between the Arabs and the West. In the opening address, the chairman...
...most beautiful bridge in the world," Florentines called it, and they never got over their outrage when, in 1944, the retreating Nazis blew up the Ponte Santa Trinita, along with four other bridges across the Arno. (Only the Ponte Vecchio was spared, because it was considered too fragile to be useful for Allied military vehicles.) Designed...
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...
...penso a qual poltrone di un vecchio caminetto ingannatore che vive in ozio come un gran signore. (And yet that stove of ours No fuel seems to need, the idle rascal Content to live in ease, just like a lord...
...wear purple shirts and scarlet neckties. He prettied up his language to the point where it would no longer shock a waterfront madam, and he worked for an air of well-dressed urbanity. He became a tab-grabbing customer at Vic Rosellini's in Seattle and Del Vecchio's in San Francisco. His third wife (he has been divorced by all three) had a certain standing in San Francisco society. He was admitted to Seattle's semi-stylish Washington Athletic Club. Most of all, Frank Brewster followed the horses, as owner and fan. A fast trader...