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Tentative concerts include, among others, appearances at London's Westminster Abbey, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, in Rome, and the Plazzo Vecchio in Florence...
Usher Moren's "II Vecchio" is such a fine parody of Hemingway that it is a shame Mr. Moren intended it as a serious story. A situation in which three barbers mourn the fate of a fourth whom age has forced back to the last chair in the shop is a true parody of all Hemingway's aging bullfighters and fishermen, especially when Mr. Moren has someone say, "He is an old man and cuts well and it is truly a terrible thing...
Died. John Taylor Arms, 66, dean of U.S. etchers, best known for his painstakingly detailed prints of Europe's architectural classics (Florence's Ponte Vecchio, Paris' Notre Dame, Chartres' Cathedral ); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...morning in 1498, a Dominican monk named Girolamo Savonarola said a last "Mass in the chapel of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. Then he and two fellow Dominicans were dragged outside to a cross-shaped scaffold. As thousands of Florentines jeered, they were stripped of their white habits. The last of the three, Savonarola silently received the hangman's noose. As he died, a pyre was lit at the bottom of his scaffold...
...citizens of Florence are justly proud of their city's handsome sky line with its craggy palaces, soaring domes and towers. In 1944, retreating Germans blew up five of Florence's famous bridges and blasted the approaches to the most famous, the Ponte Vecchio. Last week Florentines were up in arms against a new threat to their city's ancient beauty: modern architecture...