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...articulation of the relationship between the city and the garden animates both books. Lionello Puppi's essay on "Nature and Artifice in the Sixteenth-Century Italian Garden" in Gardens argues that the Renaissance garden, which was defined as an imitation of nature in opposition to the city, developed into a venue for "artifice" of all kinds...
...unofficial mayor of Rome's Via Veneto is Lionel Stander, a growling, grimacing, profane old lion with the plumage of a peacock and the unabashed appetites of a goat. As he fanfaronades along, groups of young Roman cognoscenti crowd round him and cry "Ciao, Lionello!" As he gleefully claims, "Some of the best-looking broads in Rome call me and ask 'Can I come sleep with you, baby...
...theme is adultery, and the assembled husbands of Trevise provide a hilarious survey of some of the resultant absurdities. One, Alberto Lionello, comes sniveling to a doctor friend, bemoaning a sudden attack of impotence. The doctor (Gigi Ballista) trustingly leaves Lionello to keep his wife company while he goes off for fun and games, returns a few hours later to find to his horror that the patient is miraculously cured...
...Died. Lionello Venturi, 76, Italy's goateed, golf-fancying master art critic, who wrote with equal enthusiasm of Jackson Pollock and Piero della Francesca, believed in endless creative evolution ("To paint Gothic in 1400 in Florence was wonderful, but those still painting Gothic in 1450 were poor painters"); of a heart attack; in Rome...
...Homage to Soldiers (see cut) owes a debt to Miro; his Four Bathers carries echoes of Picasso and Braque. But Pirandello's interest in the human form (he first studied to be a sculptor) keeps them well on this side of abstraction. Says Italian Critic Lionello Venturi: "He is the most human painter in postwar Italy...