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Joining Della Terza will be Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, visiting professor of comparative literature and of romance languages and literatures, Brown University professor Franco Fido, and University of Rome professors Giulio Ferroni and Augustino Lombardi. Della Terza said all the participants were personal friends of Calvino...
Tiny bumps rose and flaked the paint away, speck by speck. Veteran Restorer Dino Dini, 61, called in a chemist from the University of Florence named Enzo Ferroni, who discovered that the crystal growth was caused by lime, or calcium carbonate, turning into calcium sulphate. It took a year to find an ammonia solution that would turn the crystals back into calcium carbonate again. Impregnating a postcard-size sheet of Japanese rice paper with the solution and backing the paper with wood pulp, Dini and an assistant pressed each little rice-paper block for five minutes on the surface...
...accustomed to the look left by long imprisonment and hammering interrogation, the attrition of hunger, worry and disease. But they were still shocked by one figure that came from behind the barbed wire. Dressed in a black Chinese gown and tattered brown cap, Roman Catholic Bishop Alfonso Maria Corrado Ferroni looked dazedly out at the free world with eyes that seemed set in a skull...
...rushed forward to carry him, and their burden was light; Bishop Ferroni had wasted from 150 Ibs. to only 70 Ibs. In the hospital, the 63-year-old Italian Franciscan, who first came to China in 1922, was too weak to tell a coherent story. "Communist radio," he mumbled. "Lamps and loudspeakers . . . for days and nights." His body told more. The bishop's beard had been partly plucked out; there were blood clots under the skin on his hands, and his wrists bore the marks of manacles. "I told them, 'My thoughts are my own, and you will...
...Secret Room (by Robert Turney) is the story of Leda Ferroni, a mental victim of Nazi torture, who goes-presumably cured-to live with an American family. Before the family catches on, she has turned the kids against their mother, planned a kidnapping, committed one murder, attempted a second. The play might have been a fascinating character study or a menacing yarn. But Leda is bungled and the story is a bore...