Word: alessandro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Verdi's Requiem Mass by Soprano Maria Fanelli, Mezzo-Soprano Irene Minghini-Cattaneo, Tenor Franco Lo Giudice, Basso Ezio Pinza and the chorus and orchestra of La Scala, Milan, recorded there under Conductor Carlo Sabajno (Victor, $15)-Verdi's vibrant tribute to Novelist Alessandro Manzoni, of particular interest in Manhattan this year be- cause of a performance under Arturo Toscanini in which Mezzo-Soprano Margaret Matzenauer sang magnificently...
...sufficiently often not to resent his opponent's superior intellect. Pope Pius XI has all the distinctive attributes of mind-scholarliness, intellectuality, intelligence. The doctorates he holds in philosophy, theology and canon law he earned. When he attended the Lombard College at Rome, he and his comrade Alessandro Lualdi (later cardinal) were rated the most brilliant. Because he reorganized the Ambrosian Library in Milan and made it really useful to scholars, his friend King Vittorio Emanuele made him a Knight of the Outer of Saints Maurice & Lazarus.† His Significance. In the long list of Popes, Pius...