Word: piras
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...celebrate the sooth anniversary of his birth. A children's choir sang. Nuns convoyed little girls in white dresses who sprinkled flowers where the scaffold once stood. At night, drummers in medieval costume led processions of torch-bearing students past the flower-decked plaque. Orated Mayor Giorgio la Pira, a Christian Democrat: "Fra Girolamo Savonarola characterized Florence . . . as a firm guardian of the spirit of political liberty and as an eternal expression of fraternity and loving-kindness between...
...bird cages" and "human beehives." Thousands of townspeople, called up by a recently organized League of Action for the Esthetic Defense of Florence, marched through the city's narrow streets, waved banners denouncing the modern "skyscrapers." They stopped to boo at particularly offensive buildings, warned Mayor Giorgio la Pira that "to spoil the beauty of Florence is to cover ourselves with dishonor." Cried one demonstrator: "Enough of this chatter! Against reinforced concrete we shall employ dynamite...
Replied Mayor la Pira: "Florence"is a pearl of matchless beauty. Its defense is one of the fundamentals of this administration." At week's end, the city council had ordered work stopped on a nine-story building, was considering demolition of its upper stories to bring it into harmony with the Florence sky line...