Pereda was inwardly satisfied by the thought that the scene was like something from a story by di Benedetto.

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Ten days later, his chief lawyer and likely author of the new papal bull permitting resignation, Benedetto Gaitani, became Pope Boniface VIII.

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We can measure Benedetto da Maiano's preparatory terra-cotta bust of the tough-minded Florentine banker Filippo Strozzi against the finished marble version (both 1475).

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Until recently, San Benedetto benefited from the Cassa del Mezzogiorno, a special fund that paid for vast and often ill-conceived projects all over Italy's poor south.

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S. Eliot, Jean Cocteau, Benedetto Croce, James Burnham, Luigi Pirandello and Giovanni Gentile, along with such celebrities as Lloyd George, the Duke of Windsor and Lord Rothermere.

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San Benedetto is not in the south.

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