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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...
...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...
...When the Doge's court turned the tables on Shylock he was heavily fined, forced to will the rest of his fortune to his run away daughter Jessica and her goy hus band, made to promise he would be baptized. But he knew life in Venice would be insufferable, and after his enforced baptism escaped by ship to friends in Constantinople. After an abortive Zionistic attempt to found a Jewish colony at Tiberias he sailed with a Turkish expedition against Venice-owned Cyprus, and there had a vicarious revenge on the city that had ruined him. There...