Word: giorgio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italian Protestant leaders received the decision with muted satisfaction. Dr. Giorgio Peyrot, professor of ecclesiastical law at the Waldensian Theological Seminary in Rome, pointed out that there would be trouble as long as the conflicting Fascist laws were on the books...
...main parts are reasonably well played and sung. Actress Gaynor, who has a pleasant voice and a pretty figure, may very well satisfy the customers who did not see Mary Martin play the part. Actor Brazzi, whose songs are superbly dubbed by the Metropolitan Opera's Basso Giorgio Tozzi, is suitably virile as her aging lover...
...GIORGIO Tozzi, 35, a tall (6 ft. 1 in.), big-shouldered Chicago-born bass, made his New York debut as Tarquinius in the 1949 Broadway production of Benjamin Britten's Rape of Lucretia, but after the short-lived Rape closed, Tozzi wound up a penniless student in Italy (he recalls being so weak from hunger that he could climb to his third-floor room only once a day). Since then, he has sung widely in Europe, last summer toured as Emile de Becque with Mary Martin in South Pacific. A onetime baritone, Tozzi has a deep, warm voice...
...story arcade made up of Doric and Ionic columns that frame intervening arches supported by free-standing columns-was so brilliantly successful that it has since been copied the length and breadth of Europe. A decade later he was the architect Venice turned to for the plans of San Giorgio Maggiore, one of the most beautiful, classically ordered churches in the city. But it was the country villas, built for a merchant aristocracy that had recently discovered the bucolic life, that impressed succeeding generations...
...Here is eternal fame!" exclaimed 16th century Artist and Chronicler Giorgio Vasari of Simone Martini, the Sienese painter who lived 200 years before Vasari's time. What provoked Vasari's admiration and envy in this case was not Martini's painting, which Vasari noted was "rapidly perishing," but the fact that Petrarch had mentioned Martini in two sonnets. Last week history reversed Vasari's order of precedence. Few but antiquarians care whether Martini was mentioned by Petrarch or not, but the discovery of a hitherto unknown Martini Madonna and Child (see cut] is the talk...