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...Virginio Rotondi, a scholar who discusses religious questions on television, was talking about a case that had excited all Italy last month. Set upon by five teenagers who tried, unsuccessfully to rape her, pretty Alba Sbrighi, 19, had stabbed and killed one of her assailants with a rusty jackknife. Popular opinion was solidly behind Alba, who is now at liberty pending trial for murder. (The four remaining youths who attacked her are in jail.) But opinion was divided on Jesuit Rotondi's talk interpreting Alba' act in terms of Christian principle...
...descendant of the de Albas, I disagree with the so-called experts who would like to convince themselves that there was an adulterous relationship between the painter Goya and Dona Cayetana de Silva, one of the Duchesses of Alba [July...
MERCEDES DE ACOSTA (Y DE ALBA) New York City...
Although the Alba family of Spain denies it to this day, most of the experts are convinced that Francisco Goya had a love affair with the duchess of his time. After the duke died in 1796 and the beautiful duchess retired from society, at 34, to mourn alone on the Alba estate, the painter apparently joined her. His great portrait of 1797, now hanging at the Hispanic Society Museum in Manhattan, is the clue. A vital and imperious creature at the peak of womanhood, she stands dressed in mourning, dramatically pointing to the sand by her toes. On her pointing...
...chief wonder of Alba was that Donizetti's music again surmounted the absurdities of plot. In last week's production the orchestra sailed in whirlwind rushes through Donizetti's lush score; as whispered duets and trios alternated with bellowed choruses, the opera built to its lyrical climax in Act II with a love duet for Amelia and Marcello. Critics found the duet as fine as anything in Lucia di Lammermoor, proclaimed Alba "worthy of Donizetti's genius." But they reserved their warmest praise for 29-year-old Conductor Schippers, who had triumphed, one wrote, "with...