Word: visconti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left. This panel also is signed on the parapet: Ioannes Bellinvs. Crowe and Cavalcaselle think that Basaiti helped Bellini in the Layard Collection picture. Mr. Perkins believes that these pictures were executed by Rondinelli. He states (1905) that a third version is in the collection of the Marquis Visconti Venosta at Rome. Mr. Berenson, in his Venetian Painting in America discusses the Fogg Museum and the Layard collection Madonnas at length, and agrees with Mr. Perkins that Rondinelli is the probable author of the Layard Madonna, at least. He thinks that both pictures are copies of an original Bellini, apparently...
Frankie was a Boston Italian, second generation, so he could talk like a Heming-wayman and get away with it: his mother did not speak English so good. Frankie had left a fair job in a factory for a much better one, driving a truck for Bootlegger Visconti. His hours were long but he worked only one day a week. Good & bad luck hit Frankie about the same time. He met Rosie at a dance hall, and he got a warning from a rival 'legger that hereafter his weekly trip would not be safe...
...that by the time he got back to Boston the gunmen would be after him as the only witness of the shooting, so he lay low for a few days. When he went back to Boston to see Rosie she had gone to Manhattan. When he heard that Visconti's young wife had run away too, and that Visconti thought he had stolen her. Frankie knew his number...
Heavyset, square-faced, unhandsome, awkward, Henri Beyle had many mistresses, but in his whole life loved only one woman besides his mother: Mathilde Visconti. She was faithful to her husband, and would have none of Henri. Proud of his English, he could not make himself understood in London when he wanted to buy a jar of jam. His books were not successful; the publisher of one of them wrote to him: "The book must be sacred-nobody seemed even to dare to touch it." His friends were not sure of him: his remarks, written and printed, might have been irony...