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...Elsa knew how to use it. In print she staged a schoolgirl crush over the late Aly Khan and an insult-fest with Opera Star Maria Callas. When she suddenly turned into a devout Callas admirer, gossipmongers inevitably asked each other in what language Callas' husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, had talked to Elsa. Maxwell readers also thrilled to a three-year feud with the Duchess of Windsor, which had its well-publicized happy ending aboard the United States on Easter Sunday...
...Peter's Basilica with a retinue of clerics, a vast roar came up from the crowd. "I announce to you tidings of great joy," he intoned hoarsely in Latin. "Habemus papam-we have a Pope. He is the most eminent and most Reverend Lord Cardinal Giovanni Battista...
Married. Maria Roncalli, 26, niece of Pope John XXIII; and Luigi Gotti, 30, employed in a tile plant; in a simple nuptial Mass celebrated by Msgr. Giovanni Battista Roncalli, a nephew of the Pope; in Sotto il Monte, Italy...
...first theatre with a proscenium arch was designed in 1600 by Giovanni Battista Aleotti in Ferrara. But you will have to go to Houghton to see a handsome etching of this theatre with its five tiers of seats filled with enthusiastic playgoers...
Many of the people who swarmed through Turin's Civic Gallery of Modern Art last week brought magnifying glasses with them, for every detail in every etching and drawing in the show demanded the closest scrutiny. To the rest of the world, the works of Engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi are a familiar staple; his Views of Rome sometimes show up on the walls of U.S. dentists' waiting rooms. But to Italians he has always been an "artist for export"-an attitude that Professor Ferdinando Salamon, who helped put the Turin show together, blames on "a southern country...