Template:Did you know nominations/Florestano Di Fausto
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:16, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
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Florestano Di Fausto[edit]
- ... that Florestano Di Fausto was described as the "Architect of the Mediterranean" for his works in Italy, Albania, the Dodecanese (building in Rhodes pictured) and Libya?
- Reviewed: Chinamita
Created by Alessandro57 (talk). Self nominated at 15:01, 13 July 2014 (UTC).
Certainly long- and new- enough; and very interesting. I'm assuming good faith on the content of, and translation from, paper sources. I've made a minor change to the hook from "defined..." to "described as the...". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:17, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Regretfully, I pulled this from prep because the article doesn't explicitly say why he was called the architect of the Mediterranean. Maybe that can be resolved. Alternatively, I like the following hook idea:
- ALT1: ... that architect Florestano Di Fausto created the city plan and designed the main buildings for a project to relocate the hometown of Benito Mussolini? --Orlady (talk) 01:42, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Hallo Orlady, thanks for your late (but not too late :-)) review. I introduced in the "Legacy" section the concept of mediterraneità, making clear why Di Fausto is called "architect of the Mediterranean" by Di Marco. P.S. If you want, we could also substitute the picture of the Market in Rhodes with that of Di Fausto which is in the infobox. Alex2006 (talk) 06:15, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
