Word: battista
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Arthur Pforzheimer, Manhattan rare book dealer, exhibited manuscripts of two sweet Shaw songs, / Lack Thy Kisses and Here She Comes, written in 1884 to verses by a friend, a Miss Radford. > Last fortnight the Basle, Switzerland radio station broadcast a gay little opera buffa, La Contadina, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, second-rank 18th-Century composer. Mislaid in the Brussels Royal Library, the score had gone unperformed for two centuries. A scholar found it last year...
...Taranto, Italy, 28-year-old Battista Rocca walked out to take the air on the town's main street. Promenader Rocca had a furled umbrella crooked over his arm, and not a stitch besides. To the horrified policemen who arrested him, he explained with dignity: "I'm Mr. Chamberlain...
...Rheingold and Die Walküre behind him, Wagner has finished the libretto of Tristan und Isolde, is working on the music, under the inspiration of Mathilda Wesendonck (Eva Le Gallienne), with the Schnorrs (Arthur Gerry and Beal Hober) singing his scores and Cosima Liszt von Bulow (Miriam Battista) fluttering about in round-eyed adulation. Minna - jealous, nagging, nerve-fraying epitome of an artist's devoted wife - translates her dislike of the Wesendonck affair into criticism of Tristan: "Nothing happens in it from beginning to end, just two people bleating and bleating about how much they love each other...
...simon-pure music completely captivated a restless Manhattan audience. Few had heard of John Dowland, the great lutanist of his time in England. But they found real beauty in three delicate pieces from his Lachrimae or Seaven Teares. And many were equally impressed by a stately concerto by Giovanni Battista Lully, the versatile Florentine who wrote prodigiously as court composer for Louis...
...Fascist Selvaggi ("Savages") who blustered about Italy smashing doors, knocking out teeth, kicking pits of stomachs. Today, with the Fascist Party comparatively civilized, there is talk in Rome that Civilizer Turati is perhaps "too mild." His successor is not. Up and down Italy nervous people know that Giovanni Battista Giuriati has metaphorically bashed and smashed from Fiume to the Quirinal. But, "man of iron" though he is, the new secretary general's head is comparatively clear. He will scarcely make such a mistake as the Fascist murder of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti in 1924?the crime which nearly wrecked...