Playbill

November, 1971

A decaying Italian city, now blighted by modern architectural ugliness and beset by snarling traffic, would hardly seem the place for self-renewal. But in Thanksgiving in Florence, educator-essayist John Clellon Holmes evocatively describes how Michelangelo's art reaffirmed for him the invincibility of the human spirit. Thanksgiving, along with Holmes's June 1970 Playboy essay, See Naples and Live, will be included in a collection of memoirs about an extended tour of Europe in the late Sixties.A...

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