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VOL. 119 - NO. 23 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JUNE 5, 2015 $.35 A COPY Italian National Day 2015 Recipients of the “Ufficiale dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia” Professor Maurizio Fava, Professor Massimo Loda and Pier Paolo Pandolfi and Consul General Nicola DeSantis A reception celebrating by universal suffrage after Arlington High School Orchestra Italian National Day took World War II. (Photos by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) place at the Federal Reserve Entertainment was pro- Building in Boston hosted by vided by the Arlington High presented the “Ufficiale symptoms for sudden inter- tion which generated more the Consul General of Italy School Orchestra which is dell’Ordine della Stella ruption of antidepressant than five patents and dem- in Boston Nicola De Santis conducted by Sabato (Tino) d’Italia” to three outstanding drugs and the first to show onstrated the capacity to re- and his wife Elisa. D’Agostino. D’Agostino was Gentlemen, Professor Fava, the antidepressant effects duce the excessive response “La Festa della Repubblica” born in Italy and obtained a Professor Massimo Loda and of two drugs (buspirone to the placebo and at the is celebrated in Italy on Bachelor’s degree in classi- Pier Paolo Pandolfi. and melatonin) which, when same time the number of June 2nd and it commemo- cal trumpet, Summa Cum Professor Maurizio Fava used together, have a stimu- necessary subjects for con- rates the date in 1946 when Laude, from the Salerno represents Italian excel- lating action on the trolled clinical studies. Prof. the Italian population chose Conservatory. lence in the field of psychia- neurogenesis. Professor Fava published more than its own form of government, Consul General DeSantis try and psychopharmacology. Fava also developed, along 600 articles in many He is the first researcher in with Prof. David Schoenfeld, internationals science jour- the world to conduct a pla- a new methodology for phar- News Briefs cebo controlled study on the maceutical experimenta- (Continued on Page 7) by Sal Giarratani Rome Welcomes Back Stolen Art Works Three Good Books to Read by Emma Philipponi over the Summer ing that Interpol estimates I just finished reading Bill O’Reilly’s book Cul- the stolen cultural heritage ture Warrior and it packed a great punch. If you trade produces more than are off to the beach and want to read, this might $9 billion in profits annually. do quite well. There’s a great quote in it by Deng Italian dealers Giacomo Ming-Dao and its insight is so 2015, “A scholar Medici and Gianfranco warrior is capable of perceiving right and wrong Be-cchina, who have been in an all too gray world and is just as capable of convicted of trafficking in defending on the basis of that unstinting belief.” plundered Roman artifacts, In other words, it answers that age old ques- were identified by police as tion posed by Marvin Gaye, What’s Goin’ On? having allegedly sold several Another book by conservative radio talk of the items. show host Laura Ingraham, Power to the People, Italy’s long campaign to Some items were sponta- Police at the restoration of reminds me of that old Beatles hit and 1960s retrieve some looted art neously turned over to U.S. the works emphasized that protest slogan and as she opens her book, “It is works has succeeded. Last authorities when their prov- most collectors and muse- nighttime in America or at least it feels that week American Ambassador enance became question- ums are prepared to give up way.” John Phillips joined cara- able. Others were seized art works once the thefts are The last little book is a real oldie from the 16th binieri art police in Rome to by police after finding them known. Authorities at the century and the lessons in it carry into the 21st show off 25 returned items, in auction house catalogs. museum in Minneapolis century. It’s called The Prince by Niccolo which included Etruscan Still more have come to directly contacted the Italian Machiavelli. I read it in high school, then col- vases from the Toledo light as a result of customs cultural minister after read- lege and again a few weeks ago. Every time I Museum of Art and the searches, court cases, or ing about one suspected read it I gain new insight into his mind and his Minneapolis Institute of tips from the public. Boston piece. rules of governing. Art, 17th century botany border patrol agents seized a Ambassador Phillips noted The Fight over Hiking books from Johns Hopkins 17th century Venetian can- close collaboration between Minimum Wage Forgets the Obvious Museum in Baltimore, a non as it was being smuggled U.S. Homeland Security and 16th century manuscript from Egypt concealed inside border patrols with Italian Minimum wage jobs are careers. They are stolen from Turin in 1990 construction equipment. police. The United States wage jobs as entry level jobs for people entering which had ended up in the “Italy is blessed with a rich has returned more than the labor market as young people in school, learn- special collections of the cultural legacy, and there- 7,600 objects to more than (Continued on Page 15) University of South Florida, fore cursed to suffer the pil- 30 countries and foreign and some first century laging of important cultural citizens since 2007, said frescoes. artifacts,” said Phillips, add- Phillips. THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, JUNE 5, 2015 Res Publica by David Trumbull “The Emblem of the Land I Love” Sunday, June 14th, is Flag way we are reaffirming the ROMANO VS. RAPHAEL Day. It commemorates the transcendence of religious adoption of the flag of the faith in America’s heritage While we are on the theme in conception and treat- United States by the Second and future; in this way we of Cupid, Psyche, and art, a ment. The entire compo- Continental Congress in shall constantly strengthen very interesting story tells sition was designed and 1777. It’s a good time to re- those spiritual weapons us about the community of started by Raphael but flect on the meaning of the which forever will be our Mantua in northern Italy, completed by his pupils. This flag and of the Pledge of Alle- country’s most powerful the birthplace of Vergil. He work is rated on a par with giance that many of us re- resource in peace and war.” glorified the city’s palace the most charming cre- cited daily in school. in his four books entitled ations of the master. The I pledge allegiance to the LEGAL NOTICE “Georgica” This is the work scenes are neither coarse Flag of the United States of which exhibited such a high nor sensual; a nobility of America, and to the Republic Commonwealth of artistic perfection in Latin proportion which never over- for which it stands, one Nation Massachusetts poetry that it confirmed his steps the bounds of refine- The Trial Court under God, indivisible, with Middlesex Probate and Family position as the foremost poet ment. This, of course, ex- liberty and justice for all. Court of the “Golden Age of Latin plains why most people The Pledge of Allegiance to 208 Cambridge Street Literati.” know Raphael for the great the Flag of the United States Cambridge, MA 02141 Mannerism’s most famous (617) 768-5800 Mantua played an impor- master that he was, while of America should be ren- Docket No. MI15P2879EA fresco: Giulio Romano’s tant part in the turmoil of at the same time think of dered by standing at atten- Estate of the Middle Ages when the illusionism invents a dome Romano, as a distributor tion facing the flag with the STEPHEN J. EAGAN Gonzagas obtained its mas- overhead and dissolves the of grated cheese. The next right hand over the heart. Date of Death April 16, 2015 tery. This is also when the room’s architecture in the time you get to Rome you When not in uniform men To all CITATIONinterested persons: ON PETITION FOR city attained importance and Fall of the Giants. must visit the Farnese A PetitionFORMAL has been ADJUDICATION filed by Madison E. should remove their head- Eagan of Billerica, MA requesting that the Court prosperity. The Gonzagas Palace — that’s an order. dress with their right hand enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and were genuine lovers of shown crushed between for such other relief as requested in the NEXT WEEK: and hold it at the left shoul- art and literature, and they enormous masses of rock. Petition. And also requesting that Madison E. Aenaes, der, the hand being over the Eagan of Billerica, MA be appointed as Per- made their court a brilliant Another chamber’s frescoes Founder of the Roman Race heart. Persons in uniform sonal Representative(s) of said estate to serve center of culture, deeds, relate the story of Psyche as should remain silent, face Without Surety on the bond. arts, and letters. One wife of told by Apuleius in “The You have the right to obtain a copy of the DIAMONDS the flag, and render the mili- Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. a succeeding Gonzaga was Golden Ass”. Here, however, tary salute (U.S. Code Title You have a right to object to this proceeding.