Word: piacenza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Born in Piacenza (in North Italy) in 1691, Pannini went to Rome at 26 to learn figure painting in the style of Salvatore Rosa. After classes, he would stroll out from the Eternal City for long looks at the ruins which ringed it like a crum bling shell. Tumbling, ivied walls in scribed with ancient names and victories, pillars overlooking the wilderness or sprawled broken like dead giants in the grass, and marble steps descending into the sod inspired the "Views" for which Pannini became famous. Perhaps his the spaciousness and sparkle of Canaletto and Guardi, whose pictorial celebrations...
...Messerschmitts jumped the B-24 Liberator bomber on its way to raid the Piacenza airport in northern Italy. The Lib got away and started its target run, but the hydraulic system had been shot to bits, the fluid had frozen over the bomb-bay mechanism. The doors wouldn't open...
Saturday night at Tom Benton's became a musical institution. His son, T. P. (for Thomas Piacenza) Benton, took up the recorder. Benton put thumb tacks in the hammers of his piano to give it the proper twang. Friends and musicians began to come around to listen, laugh and join in-among them Singers Frank Luther and Carson Robison, Composers Henry Cowell and Carl Ruggles...