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...English Puritans who settled Massachusetts and established their capital seat at Boston were not known for their solicitude towards the Bishop of Rome. Themselves heirs of the English Reformation, their memories of the Papacy and the Marian persecutions were annotated by the standard work found in all of their libraries, John Fox's Acts and Monuments, commonly called The Book of Martyrs. First published in 1563 in English, The Book of Martyrs with its vivid, even lurid accounts of the sufferings unto death of Protestant martyrs at the hands of the Church of Rome and Bloody Mary served to remind...
...ROME--Police yesterday apprehended Prospero Gallinari, a founder of the Red Brigades and the alleged organizer of the abduction and kiling of former Premier Aldo Moro...
...artifact. As such, she was one of the most visited cities of Europe. For an artist, a trip to see the Bellinis and Titians was an obligatory part of his education-as necessary, if he wanted to paint murals in the grand manner, as studying the classical ruins of Rome. Painters flocked to Venice from north of the Alps as well as from other centers in Italy, and this gave an eclectic tone to Venetian art. With no dominant brush to impose its presence, as Titian's had, almost anything went -remnants of international mannerism. Venetian color, quotations from...
...ROME--An earthquake here measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale killed five persons and left more than 1000 homeless yesterday...
...restoration experts, after preliminary checks, reported no significant damage to the Leaning Tower, the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, St. Peter's Basilica and other ancient buildings in Rome and the Vatican...