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One bright spot: Robert Colescott, the first African-American artist at Venice, whose paintings, which transform images from Van Gogh and Picasso into sendups of racial stereotypes, are said to add "some spice" to an otherwise "sleepy biennal" (Holland Cotter, the New York Times ).
But outside Venice, Italians did not begin to adopt hereditary surnames until the 14th and 15th centuries, a bit later than most of the rest of Europe, according to Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, authors of the addictive A Dictionary of Surnames (Oxford University Press, 1988).
The memory of its fierce medieval history lingers still, the tales of family feuds that inspired Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet ended only with the 14th-century ascendancy of the tough Scalageri dynasty, in turn conquered by Venice in 1405.
July: Siena: first Palio (2 July, see page 105); Palermo: festival of patron Santa Rosalia; Venice: Redentore regatta; Rimini: Festival of the Sea; Rome: Noantri street-festival in Trastevere (see page 65)
The divisions resulted in Veneto (Venice and its hinterland), Emilia (between Ravenna and Modena), and Pentapolo (between Rimini and Perugia), plus Rome and Naples (with Sicily and Calabria).