Word: francesco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remnants of its great traders' fortunes, and the city slowly, deliberately died, as Austria's Vienna dies today. In this cemetery of old magnificence, half a dozen men supplied the only signs of first-rate life: Casanova the rake, Goldoni the playwright and Painters Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi and Pietro Longhi. Last week Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries put on a show of the Venetian painters who made Venice's twilight tolerable...
Papal nunciatures which automatically lead to the College are those to Spain, France, Austria, Poland; thus red hats to their four nuncios-Monsignor Federico Tedeschini, Monsignor Luigi Maglione, Monsignor Enrico Sibilia, Monsignor Francesco Marmaggi...
...Previous landplane record was 314.3 m.p.h., held by France's Raymond Delmotte. Still unequaled is the seaplane record of Italy's Francesco ("Crazy Boy") Agello-440.6 m.p.h...
...Military Paralysis." In 1896 Italy was, as she is today, attempting to wrest a colonial empire from Ethiopia. Then as now, domestic difficulties lay behind the military operations. After several years out of office, Francesco Crispi had staged a strong comeback as Premier of Italy. The new Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland had just been established on the African coast. Though France and Russia were secretly negotiating with Haile Selassie's granduncle, the potent Emperor Menelik, many chiefs questioned his authority and seemed willing Italian allies. Early in the summer of 1895 Premier Crispi had called...
...mysterious as Leonardo is the manner in which most of his surviving drawings turned up in the possession of the: British kings. Leonardo left most of his notes to his pupil Francesco Melzi. All his life he had worked less on particular jobs than on general problems, on the reason for things, on a vast effort to transpose a closely-observed reality into a dream of possible perfection. Could he have found a serviceable fuel, he might have produced an airplane in the 15th Century. All his life he returned again & again to the study of the flight of birds...