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Excerpt from Letters and Drawings of Enzo Valentini: Conte Di Laviano, Italian Volunteer and Soldier When Italy declared war on Austria in May, 1915, Enzo Valentini, who wrote these letters, was a boy of 18. Son of Luciano Valentini, Conte di Laviano, Sindaco of Perugia, and Cristina Valentini-Faina, he came of a stock which on both sides has ever given itself for Italian Unity and Liberty. Being under the age of conscription, without hesitation and with his parents' full consent, Enzo Valentini volunteered in the famous Umbrian regiment, to which the brothers Garibaldi, lately returned from victories in the Argonne, had been assigned as officers. Delicately nurtured, of not very strong phys...
Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain, claimed that he had never wanted the overpowering roles thrust upon him by his illustrious younger brother Napoleon. Left to his own devices, he would probably have been a lawyer in his native Corsica, a country gentleman with leisure to read the great literature he treasured and oversee the maintenance of his property. When Napoleon's downfall forced Joseph into exile, he was able to become that country gentleman at last, but in a place he could scarcely have imagined. It comes as a surprise to most people that Joseph spent seventeen years in the United States following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. In The Man Who Had Been King, Patricia Tyson St...
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Since 1970, based in an isolated building situated on the peninsula of Posillipo, Pica Ciamarra Associati (www.pcaint.eu) has acted as a laboratory of architectural and urban design which has gradually incorporated new members and new energies over the time: using a multidisciplinary approach, the roots of the architectural practice lie in the intensive theoretical and practical work begun in the early 1960s by Massimo Pica Ciamarra. Since then the practice has been marked by a continuous relationship with Le Carré Bleu Feuille internationale darchitecture and leading members of the cultural milieu of Team 10: this has led to constant attention to everything that lies beyond form, to the re...
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