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The Stamford Advocate, Conn., Joe Pisani column: Hope is among the greatest gifts of Christmas.
; ...us a peace the world can't provide. In a Christmas greeting written almost 500 years ago, a 16th century friar, Fra Giovanni Giocondo, said: There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, very much that, while I cannot give...
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Tasha Tudor, 92; illustrated, authored children's books
; ...spirited person." He said she took as her watchwords the phrase attributed to the Italian architect and scholar Fra Giovanni Giocondo: "The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy." Tasha Tudor was born in Boston...
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When Venice Looked Eastward; Renaissance Artists Borrowed From Islam to Evoke Classical Culture
; ...Renaissance scholar of classical texts and architecture named Fra Giocondo looks perfectly European -- it's close to what bibliophiles...long-lost finery of the Romans might have looked like. When Giovanni Bellini painted his great "Feast of the Gods," in Washington...
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