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It started about forty years ago when a guy opened a filling station which coincided with the birth of his first child, so in recognition of that and in honour of his Italian wife, he called the company Cicogna, which is Italian for -- "
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His prints are small or medium format and his color palette tends to be pale, but his subject matter is terrifically heterogeneous and each image has enormous implications: a visually misleading cityscape in "San Giovanni in Persiceto—Piazza Betlemme" (1991); a straight-ahead picture of a villa in "Cicogna dalla strada per Montagnana" (1989); both a real and a faux landscape in "Engelberg" (1972-1985).
Industrial Art And a Kitty William Meyers 2012
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Elizabeth Taylor dressed a scene costume during a Carnival party in Venice, I remeber some photos of the star near Grace Kelly and other celebrities at palazzo Cicogna maybe
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Cicogna hath many examples, lib.iii. omnif.mag. cap. 4 and 5, which he there confutes, as Austin likewise doth, de civ.
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Paracelsus think, is to keep treasure in the earth, that it be not all at once revealed; and besides, [1218] Cicogna avers that they are the frequent causes of those horrible earthquakes which often swallow up, not only houses, but whole islands and cities; in his third book, cap. 11, he gives many instances.
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Omnia spiritibus plena, et ex eorum concordia et discordia omnes boni et mali effectus promanant, omnia humana reguntur: paradoxa veterum de quo Cicogna.omnif. mag.l. 2. c.
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Cicogna, to concord and discord of spirits; but most to outward graces.
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Cicogna proves at large, they are [1150] Illusoriae, et praestigiatrices transformationes, omnif.mag. lib.
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Thomas, Durand, and others, grant that they have understanding far beyond men, can probably conjecture and [1152] foretell many things; they can cause and cure most diseases, deceive our senses; they have excellent skill in all Arts and Sciences; and that the most illiterate devil is Quovis homine scientior (more knowing than any man), as [1153] Cicogna maintains out of others.
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Arabians, (as I find them cited by [1230] Cicogna) farther add, that they are not our governors only, Sed ex eorum concordia et discordia, boni et mali affectus promanant, but as they agree, so do we and our princes, or disagree; stand or fall.
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