Ippazio Antonio Bortone National Parliament; bust of Gino Capponi for a hall of the city Hall of Florence; and a bust of the illustrator of Dante's works, Giambattista Giuliani. Ippazio Antonio Bortone Ippazio Antonio Bortone (Ruffano, 1847- Lecce, 1938) was an Italian sculptor, active for many years in Florence. He was born in Ruffano, near the city of Lecce in the Province of Lecce in the region of Apulia in Southern Italy. He completed his study at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, and became honorary professor of that Academy, as well as the Academies of Florence and Lecce. He was also
A Cloud in Trousers A Cloud in Trousers A Cloud in Pants (Облако в штанах, Oblako v shtanakh) is a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in 1914 and first published in 1915 by Osip Brik. Originally titled "The 13th Apostle" (but renamed at the advice of a censor) Mayakovsky's first major poem was written from the vantage point of a spurned lover, depicting the heated subjects of love, revolution, religion and art, taking the poet's stylistic choices to a new extreme, linking irregular lines of declamatory language with surprising rhymes. It is considered to be a turning point in his work and one of