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...little (pop. 12,600) Italian town of Borgo San Sepolcro, lying in the fertile valley of the upper Tiber, has a proud boast: one of its townsmen was the great Renaissance painter and mathematician, Piero della Francesca (circa 1418-92). Legend has it that Piero was a fatherless boy who took the name of his mother Francesca. He studied at Florence, returned to Borgo San Sepolcro to get his first major commission, traveled through Italy painting in Rimini, Ferrara, Rome, Arezzo and Urbino, then settled down to spend his last 14 years in his native town compiling two mathematical treatises...
...Retreat. A month ago, as he had done for many summers, he and his wife Francesca moved into their summer chalet near the tiny, Alpine hamlet of Sella. At 73, De Gasperi was worn and haggard. His heart was tired. He was ordered to rest, but he continued anxiously to write and phone Christian Democratic leaders in Rome. He was increasingly distressed by France's attitude toward the EDC he had helped create. One day last week he had a slight heart attack...
Certain artists of the 15th Century, especially Piero della Francesca, achieved perspectival conflicts which worked on the human consciousness and were very moving, Read said. But the trend towards architectonic representation of the external world forced a set of rules on the pure contents of the consciousness...
Vigilant Momma. In 1932, while attempting to put Korea's case before an indifferent League of Nations in Geneva, Rhee met Francesca Maria Barbara Donner, 34, the daughter of a family of Viennese iron merchants. Two years later they were married in a Methodist ceremony in New York. The Rhees live in a modest mansion on the rolling hillside behind Seoul, only 30 miles south of the front. In their household Madame Rhee maintains constant vigilance...
Born. To Deborah Kerr, 30, British cinemactress (Colonel Blimp) who has settled in Hollywood (King Solomon's Mines, Quo Vadis), and Anthony Bartley, 34, producer of adventure movie shorts: their second child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Francesca Ann. Weight...