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...Corner is emeritus professor at the University of Siena and the author of several fine books on the fascist era, starting with his regional study Fascism in Ferrara 1915-1925 (1975)....
...Fed speakers With the Federal Reserve gearing up for tighter monetary policy investors will closely watch remarks from New York Fed chair John Williams, a voting member of the policy-setting Federal Open...
...Vividly decked out in crimson damask and yellow satin, she calls to mind the Browning poem in which the Duke of Ferrara contemplates a portrait of his late wife, Cosimo’s daughter Lucrezia....
...“This coalition is already so fragile that the only thing gluing it together is their fear of Salvini,” says Erik Jones, professor of European studies and international political economy at the Johns Hopkins...
...Perhaps the need for reflective, tranquil contemplation drove John Aislabie (1670-1742) to make one of the finest and most enduring water gardens ever conceived....
...But Claudio Alessandri, a professor at Italy’s University of Ferrara and general co-ordinator of the project, disputes this, calling the accusations of offensive Ottoman behaviour a “clamorous urban legend...
...Lindsay Anderson was David Storey’s go-to man; John Dexter, Arnold Wesker’s....
...On the other hand, the Ferrara school that Longhi also championed stays closed to our sensibility....
...Mr Ferrara said the decision was down to the pope’s advanced age rather than illness, recalling that Pope John Paul II was seriously incapacitated during the last months of his papacy until he died in 2005...
...Giuliano Ferrara, editor of the daily Il Foglio who last year predicted the Pope’s resignation, thinks the Pope “may already have a deal on his successor....
...£16.99 The ever-inventive Smith’s Man Booker-shortlisted novel is a tale of two halves: in one, teenage George, trying to cope with her mother’s sudden death, finds herself obsessing about their trip to Ferrara...
...Mr Ferrara added the decision had taken papal succession “out of the hands of God and into the hands of the pope himself.”...
...Sorolla’s poetic, semi-impressionist style stamped him in the mould of that other Belle Epoque master, John Singer Sargent....
...“They just came today and the shelter is closing down on Wednesday,” Mr Ferrara said....
...(One at least: John Hinckley, who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan.) “At the same time I’m a film-maker. I’m about my characters....
...But the sprinkling of household names – John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Frederick Childe Hassam, Thomas Eakins and James McNeill Whistler – were never permanent residents: Florence, as James noted, was...
...I haven’t even mentioned Abel Ferrara’s 4.44: Last Day on Earth, a quirkily distinctive end-of-world movie, or William Friedkin’s Killer Joe, a racily scripted Texas murder thriller....
...This John is most clearly recognisable in “Angel” by an anoymous follower, in “Christ with the Symbol of the Trinity”, attributed to Giampietrino and in “The Apostle John”, also by Giampietrino....
...▲ Monselice, Italy, £13.9m Where: In the town of Monselice, 15 miles from Padova, 34 miles from Ferrara, 40 miles from Venice....
...was offered Garofalo’s “Deposition in the Tomb” as a Raphael, an error that now looks inexplicable given the wooden figures and strained composition, but Garofalo was known in his day as “the Raphael of Ferrara...
...A youth spent travelling through Lucca, Ferrara, Bologna and Florence brought him into contact with artists, such as Lorenzo Ghiberti, whose exuberantly vital naturalism was unknown in Siena....
...After all, Avastin, the “blockbuster” cancer treatment, was first identified and cloned during the “discretionary time” allocated to Napoleone Ferrara, one of Genentech’s scientists, in 1989....
...“That sofa looks like the only things you could do on it are smoke a hookah and have sex,” she says. www.adeditions.com Jackie Ferrara A minimalist, Ferrara first started making furniture for herself before...
...John Pascoe’s thoughtfully conceived production concludes with Lucrezia slitting her throat....
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