Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make things even more difficult, the Italian government hoped to buy the statue itself, did its best to force the selling price down to a figure it could afford. As soon as the Pieta was announced for sale, the government's council of fine arts promptly ruled that the Pieta might not leave Italy, thereby spiking any possible foreign offers, including a rumored $550,000 bid from the former White House envoy to the Vatican, Myron C. Taylor...
...selling the Pieta had become a national issue. Newspapers and radio comedians took it up. Thirty-five country schoolchildren in northern Italy had contributed 500 lire (90?) "towards a national fund wherewith to purchase the Pieta." But so far the best offers were a paltry $90,000 from the Italian government, $400,000 from a Milanese industrialist who hoped to place the Pieta over Michelangelo's tomb in Florence's Church of Santa Croce, but only if he could get the statue taxfree...
...Named for the Roman House of Rondanini, which owned the statue for generations. *In 1937, Mussolini's officials had scotched the U.S. sale for another Michelangelo Pieta by put-ing a $2,500,000 export price tag on it; later an Italian bought it for about $250,000, presented it to the state...
...interpretation of doctrine came from the church's sharpest intellectual spearhead, Rome's official Jesuit fortnightly, Civilta Cattolica. The lead article in its current issue is an attack by fiery-eyed, black-haired Jesuit Father Antonio Messineo on a bill recently introduced in the Italian Chamber of Deputies that would legalize conscientious objection. Writes Father Messineo...
...Bicycle Thief. Italian Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica's carefully made classic of a worker and his small child hopelessly scouring Rome for a stolen bicycle (TIME...