{"product_id":"steam-ship-conte-biancamano-positano-1953","title":"Steam Ship Conte Biancamano, Positano 1953","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith its steep, cliffside setting along Italy’s picturesque Amalfi coast and pastel-colored buildings that seem to cascade down to the Tyrrhenian Sea, the town of Positano has been a holiday resort since the time of the Roman Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, Positano was still a relatively poor fishing village during the first half of the twentieth century. It began to attract large numbers of tourists in the 1950s, especially after the iconic American writer John Steinbeck published an essay about his visit there in Harper’s Bazaar in 1953, the date of this menu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘It is a dream place that isn't quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone,’ Steinbeck wrote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Italian cruise line Societa di Navigazione, based in Genoa, made this little enclave - that still has only about 4,000 permanent residents today - one of its ports of call, hence this lovely drawing of the location on a menu cover from the ship Conte Biancamano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis passenger ship, built in the shipyards of Scotland in 1925, epitomized Italian style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere were elegant public salons filled with designer furniture and paintings and murals by noted Italian artists. Cabins were large and luxurious and outside there were verandas, immense promenade decks and swimming pools.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, the ship secretly transported the embalmed corpse of Maria Maggi, also known as Evita Peron and the wife of the former Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron, from Buenos Aires to Genoa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe had died in 1952, at the age of 33, of cancer, but continued to attract a cult-like fame among low-income and working-class Argentines, who were referred to as descamisados or ‘shirtless ones.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of the coup that deposed her husband, the Argentine military – with the covert assistance of the Vatican – tried to break the hold the hugely popular First Lady had over the population by having her body buried in a Milan cemetery under a false name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo decades later in 1976, Evita’s remains were removed and finally placed in her family's mausoleum in Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The operation was overseen by Argentina’s dictatorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday she lies in a crypt fortified like a nuclear bunker, buried five meters underground, so no one should ever again be able to disturb the remains of Argentina's most controversial First Lady.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA large section of the Conte Biancamano is preserved at the Leonardo Da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGallery quality Giclée print on natural white, matte, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using Epson Ultrachrome HD archival inks. Custom printed with border for matting and framing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eEach order includes a print of the interior menu.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll printed in USA.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage Menu Art","offers":[{"title":"8.5x11\" Archival Print (Unframed) $25.00","offer_id":57492003029158,"sku":"fby1790053182625","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11x14 Archival Print (Unframed) $30.00","offer_id":57492003061926,"sku":"qvg1790053182626","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"13x19 Archival Print (Unframed) $40.00","offer_id":57492003094694,"sku":"csf1790053182627","price":25.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x20 Archival Print (Unframed) $55.00","offer_id":57492003127462,"sku":"iek1790053182628","price":43.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20x24 Archival Print (Unframed) $85.00","offer_id":57492003160230,"sku":"wfs1790053182629","price":51.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x36 Archival Print (Unframed) $135.00","offer_id":57492003192998,"sku":"pmd1790053182630","price":85.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/9133\/8662\/files\/steam-ship-conte-biancamano-positano-1953_1.webp?v=1790053186","url":"https:\/\/coffeetamper.shop\/products\/steam-ship-conte-biancamano-positano-1953","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}