Word: adelina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Margutta enjoyed its golden age in the 19th century. Then the hill villages of Anticoli and Saracinesco, which have traditionally supplied artist models to the capital, still sent their handsomest daughters to Margutta studios. Fashionable painters gave parties at which young artists sipped champagne with Adelina Patti, Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. Wagner was so fascinated with Via Margutta that he considered settling down there. The Marguttiani, appalled at having their peace disturbed by "a German who writes futuristic music," were relieved when the composer abandoned the idea...