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Weimar: culture with a dark side
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WEIMAR, Germany -- Weimar is considered the capital of classical
German culture, home to Goethe, Schiller and Bach. The city was also
the birthplace of Bauhaus modernism and of Germany's first democratic
republic.
But Weimar has a dark side as well. Adolf Hitler was adored here,
and the Buchenwald concentration camp sits on a hill overlooking the
city. For four decades after World War II, the city was under
Communist rule.
Today it is one of Germany's loveliest cities, appealing to
everyone from lovers of literature and music to history buffs. I have
been coming here since the days of East ...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1958: New Pope Is John XXIII
Newspaper article from:
; ...s Square and joy throughout Italy. The new Pope chose the name of John XXIII. He was the second to use it, for Baldassare Cossa, a Neapolitan who claimed to be Pope from 1410 to 1415, also used it. By going back to a name which, in Catholic...
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Typography Papers 6.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...inscriptions, including most of those that we think we already know in detail (such as the tomb of Martin V and Baldassare Cossa). Mosley's essay on Cresci is an extension of "Trajan Revived" (Alphabet 1964), the first--and still...
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Medici men in suits Even bankers could be Renaissance men, says Paul Strathern
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...diocese even paid in whalebones). The Medici first gained the papal account by financing the disreputable ex-pirate Baldassare Cossa, a gamble which paid off when he became Pope Giovanni XXIII. Transmitting large sums of money from northern Europe...
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De varietate fortunae.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...first half of the Quattrocento, which gave vent to Poggio's hatred and biting criticism of his betes noires, Baldassare Cossa (later Pope John XXIII), Eugenius IV, and most of all, the brutal soldier-cleric, Cardinal Giovanni Vitelleschi...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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LETTERS: your views.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; ...the latter taking the title in order to somewhat mask the misdeeds of the former. The first John XXIII, known as Baldassare Cossa, before putting on the Fisherman's ring and sitting on St Peter's chair, made his crust in a rather unusual...
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