Born on 12 may 1921, Beuys lived 13 years in " La casa di Lucrezia", in Bolognano, the mansion of the Durini Barons, where a square was built for him with a square with his four favourite plants (the oak, laurel, rosemary and olive tree). Lucrezia and Buby Durini met Beuys in Naples in 1971 and the artist stayed with them until his death in 1986. In the Bolognano mansion (42 rooms) many works of art are kept.

At the Archivio di Stato, Pescara at 10 today the first regional congress on musical iconography based on the Santuario Madonna d'Appari, Paganica». Information obtained from the study of the frescoes in the ancient sanctuary will be examined to reconstruct the musical art of the time.

Gran Sasso, 12 sept 1943: Benito Mussolin, a prisoner of the Allies, is set free by a German commando and taken to Germany. The merit officially was given to SS captain Otto Skorzeny, but Marco Patricelli, in his new «Liberate il duce» (Mondadori, 214 pages) explains how the raid was under the command of Luftwaffe major Harald Mors on a plan made by general Kurt Student.

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