The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-10-25
OLD ITALIAN TO
vIcENzA OF IMPORTANCE
TIME OF THE ROMANS.
Its AehieVements Ia ...,ms Rank Sec
ond to It's Architectural Sptendors
Once Capital Of a Loni-
bard Duehy.

Closely massed on both banks OF.
the small Bacchiglione river, Yieenza,
with an urban population OF 35,oo3,
has been an important town of snortes-
ern Italy since the early Roman days
when it was known as Yicetia. It mas
not played thrilling role in Italian an
history, however, but is. noted rather:
for its architectural splendor than far3
it's achievements in arms.
The surrounding plain, whose lux
uriart mulberry trees, with Their
armies of silk worms, so soon may De
supplanted by the cypress fTonds q
sorrow over countless soldiers graves,
extend to the north through There
and Schio, tTrp manufa curing towns
in the Leogra valley, and to the east
as far as Venice, 40 miles distant
Sixteen miles to tfe west, beyond tie
Berici mountains, lies Verona, with
its many Shakespearean associations.
Beautiful villas and blosson,lng hetds
are a feature Of this landscape nov
overcast with the shadow OF inFadingE
Austrians. 8
viccnza's share in the history-nat-,
inc Of the early middle ages was ass as
capital Of a Lombard duchy. It was.
one of the cities which formed thes
Lombard league in the twelfth een-s
tury, opposing Frederick Barbarossa
during the several campaigns whereby
he attempted to re-etablish the West
ern empire on Charlemagne scale.
In 1886 the city was stormed ed pil-:
iaged by the Sicilian emperor, Fred
erick IT,, catastrophe which the IN
habitants were able to bear with more
.eouanimity after this rulers over
vhelmins defeat before the walls %os
Parma, when his imperial crown was.
placed in mockery on the head OF a
hunchback beggar, who was gwen q
atriumphal entry" into the victorious
town. Early in the fourteenth cen
fury vicenza asserted and secured It's
independence from Padua, but; a nun
dred years later it came under the
extensive sway Of Venice.
The most distinguished name IN
YicenZa's hall Of fame is that OF one
of the greatest architects of the ltal-s
Ian renaissance, Andrea Palladio, VINO:
broke away from the excessively
ornate style Of his contemporaries
and turned, perhaps, too reyerentiys 70:
the simple, stately standards OF
ancient Rome. His handiwork is pre-
eminently dominant in his birthplace,
so much so, in fact, that 4 famous
American novelist has complained
that "the cold hand of that friend OF
yirtuous poverty in architecture hes
heavy upon his native. city,. one OF
the most interesting structures de-.
signed by him is the immense olimplco.
theater, modelled after the ancient
theaters, and dedicated in 1854. Sc,
Another great artist Of Yicenza was
the precocious peasant boy Santegna,
who left his flock Of sheep at the sase.
of eleven in order to become great;
nainter under the patronage OF the
UNIQUE Squarcione, tailor FAMOUS
both as art connoisseur and teacher.
The stiffness of Mantegna's draperies
is said to be accounted for by his
custom of drawing from models clad
in paper or in gummed fabrics. AS
an 1engraver AIantegna's fame is as
sured by his plate, entitled "Entoms-
ment" said to have had q greater IN
f,uence on art than any otter ever eA-
ecuted, for it's composition was
adopted by Raphael, Hoioeln ana
Durer.