Word: bolognas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight years ago Pope Pius XII trained Roman Catholicism's biggest gun on Communism. Party members and collaborators, he decreed, were automatically excommunicated. This tough tactic obviously could backfire-especially in areas like Bologna and Emilia, where 85% of the population was at least nominally Communist. To keep their flocks from evaporating, many a priest uncomfortably ignored the papal decree, went on marrying and burying known Communists...
...which he had only middling success. He was standing under the shower one day singing O Sole Mio when the cyclist in the stall next to him told him that he had a voice. Pinza prepped with a home-town voice teacher, was accepted by the conservatory at Bologna, made a whistle-stop debut with a small opera company, and departed for World...
...Milan's La Scala, Naples' San Carlo, the Rome Opera, Venice's La Fenice, the Comu-nale of Florence, Bologna and Cagliari, Genoa's Carlo Felice, Turin's Regio, Trieste's Verdi, Verona's Arena and Palermo's Massimo...
...family, it was Annibale (1560-1609), youngest of the three, who was easily the most talented. Silent, melancholy and absorbed in his work in later years, in his youth he loved to caricature his drinking companions, and in The Butcher Shop (see cut) painted a slice of Bologna life that is the hit of the current show. His crowded, Michelangelesque murals for the Palazzo Farnese in Rome set the style for baroque ceilings for the rest of the 17th century, are today ranked by such art historians as New York University's Walter Friedlaender as "second only to Michelangelo...
...them all, Critic Bernard Berenson,,' who once dismissed their whole school as "worthless." Wrote Berenson in Milan's Corriere della Sera: "After a century of obscurity and almost oblivion the Carracci, with a roll of drums and the sound of trumpets, have made their great comeback in Bologna." Berenson still refused to place the Carracci "among the greatest painters," but he gave a cheer for Annibale's Butcher Shop. Said he: "My attention is attracted by the realism that pervades this painting. I do not recall elsewhere movement, gestures or expressions so real or so lifelike...