Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-05-21
MILAN NOSE T
Which There Were Twenty-Three
smellers I'm Li~ne-ItaIinnS Have
Respect for Zig Noses, a..

Inc nose has at all periods of their
history possessed a peculiar sigpia-
canoe for Italians. As a symbol of in
telhgence it figures in familiar speech.
ancient and modern, a homo nasutis-
SINUS being Seneca's equivalent for a
very clever man and Naso a name held
IN honor by the 0taci%an, Octayian,
o'idian and Vocanian gems, while
NaSlca was n cognomen of the Scipios.
one OF whom, Publius Scipio Nasica.
was, as the most v%irtuous man in the
state chosen to accompany the image
OF the Mater 1daea to Rome. In tho
ltalN' OF to-day aver naso and esser di |
puoh naSo Ito have nose, to be of good
nose), are the first of a series of phrases
all turning on that feature in lis sym.
Dolc sense and giving rise to proverbs
INFINITE in the variety of their applica-
ton. The great Napoleon was true to
his Italian origin in his preference for
n big nose" and the late Lord Bea-
consfie!d, described from Venetian
Jews, never concealed his scorn for the
"Hat-nosed Frank" He held, in fact.
'na' 10 De SINUS was the first step to-
ward being a simia or ape-a "retroces-
sion in evolution" admitted by some
among the facts for Darwin" Sucb n :
horror have Italians of any lesion cost
ing the face its nose or robbing the lat .
ter OF its due proportions that rhino- =
plasty among them has long been one
u the surgical fine arts" and the
great Bolognese anatomist Tagliacozzi
,l5l6-99) has for all time given his name
o an ingenious method of replacing
ne f~eaturesrhen lost. Quite in keep.
therefore, with all precedent. ms |
ven as with the fitness of things. ii is
II italy that we find the "cult of the
Csc as vital as ever, insomucb tbot |
'ln'n the last seven years she has had
"o toncorsi di Nasi tor nose comppti-
.ohs)' IN which the owners of the fea.
IRE received prizes according as they
'uld present it in greater perfection
regards type, size, beauty and olfac.
'ry power. The former of these con.
'fs' was held in 1891 at Padua on ,he
of the students OF that medi.
school, and the citizens were in.
ted by universal suffrage and secret,
ing TO name the possessors of nast
IL s'lIuppati e rispettabili moses of
e most pronounced aud respectable(
the ancient Venetian town. The
,ArS' consisting of pocket handker,
'e'S ana snuf boxes, were in due
awarded by plurality of votes.
NJ Milan, and quite recently. a much
tier ordered and more conclusive
lnpetltion of the same kind has ms,
ne off, the whole proceedings beino
l'roIIed by a committee and the tex.
conducted in a Nasoteca
'nlshed with drawings and water
OF heads well provided with
'es, sue as would have g~laddened the
ls''c sense Of William Hogarth. The R fa'
npetltorS numbered 36, but not more ba,
n :" appeared before the examiners rel!
hrSt prize (gold medal was won by -
ehetIan, Fortunate Michielutti by u
ne, a vender of l~ucifers, whose nosa ~
found to be of formidable pro. Ssiy
t'ons, long, well pronounced, ag. ,an,
ss'Ne, trenchant like a knife blode -,
second prize fell to one Antonio - -
~ possessed of a nose "domineer. ba =
assuming, with n~ostrils wide md :
nous The award for this was Ja,
'edai IN enamel, while the third s.n'.
a silver medal of the first order
hnlndged to Carlo Ascani. for tbe \
lea' symmetrical proportions of his +"
] feature, The last two prizes. ST. IN.
medals of the second and third or.
> respectively, were given for
without pretension, Ingenious
SOLID and well planted" and for one In,
siderable, regular and worthy of n m,
ec'' The candidates who were whom
- perhaps ~"ploughed' that
DC a more suggestive word have
the festivities with which the n ,ot,
,i'''e concluded its labors, and so fist n
oncorso di Nasi became n thine n tbis ,
'as'' TIL the Buontemponi (merry. l., we,
'rsl OF a future year or another ince ,
'hlhk ut to revive the harmless retur,
clifton - pp1o,