Word: giordano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...philosophy, law, history, medicine and anatomy the list of famous Neapolitans, is long. Remembering Parthenope, the clearest absent vision of her university is the quadrangle where stand the statues of those curious associates, two of whom came through martyrdom and exile to this peace--St. Thomas, Pietro della Vigna, Giordano Bruno. Pietro, Chancellor, of the Emperor Frederick II., and like him a poet, delivered his master's character to the university. Blinded by the Emperor, who trusted to forged letters, the work of onvy, "the harlot, who ne'er turned her gloating eyes from Caesar's household," he dashed...
...fate of Giordano Bruno, Dominican pantheist, smiter of scholastic Aristotelianism, philosophical ancestor, in some regards, of Spinoza, is known "to every schoolboy," at least in the Macaulay School. The blind self-slain Chancellor, the great Dominican heretic, Copernican, metaphysician, the supreme schoolman, are strange comrades, vivid to the imagination. Two of them are instinct with the Virgilian tenderness, in that city of Virgil, of "mentem mortalia tangunt." --New York Times...
...Maestro Giordano, composer of Andrea Chenier and Fedora, now very popular throughout Italy, has completed a new opera which is to be produced sometime in the indefinitely near future at Milan. He has written music for Bellini's play La Cena della Beffe which the two male Barrymores played in this country as The Jest...
...play has been in existence for some 15 years. Giordano did not see the play until 1919, although it was a favorite in Italy. He at once asked Bellini for the operatic rights and was refused on the grounds that they had been granted to another composer much earlier. Giordano applied to the other composer, and was denied the rights. Thereupon he set out for his villa on beautiful Lake Maggiore, set to work composing. When he completed it, he managed to secure the operatic rights which the other composer had kept, unused for 15 years...
...preparing the play for the opera stage, Giordano was obliged to delete parts of the libretto. The motif appears in the first act and is elaborated into an octette in the third act when Gianetto's plot is perfected. In this way a passage which occupied 15 minutes in the drama is reduced to four minutes in the opera, because all the characters speak at once. The result must be striking if not effective. As yet no one is said to have heard the music except Giordano's wife. But the combined popularity of La Cena della Beffe...