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...wedding of 18-year-old Raimonda Ciano to Alessandro Giunta, a great-great-great-grandson of Napoleon's brother, Lucien Bonaparte, in St. Mark's Basilica, Rome, a photographer concentrated on the bride's family and produced a memorable portrait of three tense, dry-eyed, well-dressed widows: the bride's mother, Edda Mussolini Ciano, who stood in an old II Duce pose, arms folded and jaw outjutting: the bride's two grandmothers, Rachele Mussolini and Carolina Ciano...
Married. Raimonda Ciano, 18, only daughter of Edda Mussolini Ciano and the late Count Galeazzo Ciano, granddaughter of 11 Duce; and Alessandro Giunta, 23, great-great-great-grandson of Napoleon's brother, Lucien Bonaparte; in Rome...
...Alessandro Scarlatti: Sonata a Quattro (New Music Quartet; Bartok). A pre-Bach genius (1660-1725) who specialized in operas and cantatas, Scarlatti was one of the first to write a real string quartet. This one, full of surprising glints and glows, is played to perfection by one of the U.S.'s finest ensembles. On the same disk: quartets by Tartini and Boccherini...
...BETROTHED (591 pp.) - Alessandro Manzoni (translated by Archibald Colquhoun]-Dutton...
Legend has it that Sir Walter Scott once met Alessandro Manzoni and fervently congratulated him on his historical novel, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed). Manzoni replied modestly that the book owed everything to Scott. "In that case," said Sir Walter, "this is my finest work...