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Achille Chiesa of Milan was a shrewd business man and a great lover of the arts: his son, Achillite, while inheriting his father's taste, proved to be lamentably without his shrewdness. To liquidate his debts his executors offered the renowned Chiesa collection for sale. Last week part of it- 63 paintings by Flemish, Dutch, Italian masters, and a show of old armor, basinets and brigandines, a Castilian chapel-de-fer, a Venetian salade, some great two-handed swords from England-was put on exhibition in the American Art Galleries...
...great piazza before the Cathedral of Milan, black-shirted Fascists swarmed like a Titan ant horde, rejoicing militantly at the third anniversary of Fascismo's "bloodless" triumph. Round the motor car of Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, Fascists crowded in a tight packed mass-the quintessence of joyous adoration. Their leader's face, pale from recent ill health, lighted with an inextinguishable flame. Rising he cried: "Fascism has now broken down all dikes and overcome all obstacles . . . crushed its internal enemies. [Of] the currents abroad which are not resigned to our frontiers ... I must say that if tomorrow these...
Italy. An impeccable little "Nude" by Ubaldo Oppi of Milan, which won a prize of $1,000; reticent violence in a dreaming young girl, "Cinthia," by Felice Casorati...
Several times in the last seven years the Italian Government has shaken a stern, denying finger at rich U. S. citizens who have tried to buy objects from the collection of Achillito Chiesa of Milan. Chiesa before the War acquired a great gallery of pre-Renaissance painting, including a triptych by Orcagna, a picture each of Simone, Martini and Bellini, 1,200 other paintings of the 11th to 16th Centuries, early enamels, ivories, textiles, furniture, porcelain, faience, majolica. He bought Correggio's Holy Family, Filippino Lippi's most celebrated Madonna and Child, works by Duerer, Van Cleff, Mabuse...
After Italy had declared war against Austria, he joined the corpo dei bersaglieri, went to the front and was in 1917 wounded. Returning to Milan, he worked faithfully and loyally in the Allied interests in his newspaper and, by the end of the War, he was a confirmed Nationalist. Soon after, finding that...