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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Giovanni Pertinax Morosini was born in Venice nearly 100 years ago when the city belonged to Austria. Who his parents were the record does not say, but he always liked to believe that he was descended from the magnificent Doge Francesco Morosini (1618-94), Commander-in-chief of the Venetian Navy...
scourge of the Turks-a relationship which the present impoverished Contessa Morosini never acknowledged. Doge Francesco would have chuckled over Giovanni Pertinax's career...
...loved the feel of a good knife. He built a special armory near the main house and filled it with morions, pikes, arquebusses, rapiers, burganets, daggs, arbalests, cabassets, lobstertailed salades, crossbows and Courlandish tschinkes. His stable was the pride of the Hudson. To the day of his death the Doge of Elmhurst cursed the automobiles that frightened his horses and sent his smart Brewster phaetons into ditches...
...back the Cambridge heat, the long drawn chuckle, and the water sparkling in the moonlight. The Bourbons have gone, but the Lily remains. Guy Fawkes is dead, but they hunt him out each year in quivering candle light. In 1797 Venice was only a beautiful town when the last Doge Lodovico threw his golden ring into the sea. And the Yard is taken from...
...made Rigoletto and Trovatore hurdy-gurdy matter. The plot is a complicated brew of political intrigue, kidnapping and poisoning which few in last week's audience attempted to define. Tibbett absorbed the attention. He sang magnificently, gave great dignity and force to the corsair who rose to be Doge in Genoa, finally died by the hand of his hunchbacked henchman. In one scene where he stopped a brawl and set a curse on the cringing hunchback, he was impressive enough to suggest the Boris Godounov of Basso Feodor Chaliapin. From beginning to end he behaved like a thoroughgoing artist...