Word: giorgio
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Arrived in Manhattan four representatives of the Vatican Library to study U. S. library systems. They are Mgr. Giorgio Benedetti. Father Carlo Scala. bound for the Boston Public Library; Professors Giordanoi Ignio and Gerordo Bruni, headed for the University of Michigan...
...command, he has been nicknamed "Shoot." It is an Americanism that sounds ludicrous and a little contemptible to Italians. Another man might be annoyed but not "Shoot" Gubbio. He can contemplate worse than that with equanimity. The futility of mechanical "art," for example. Even the suicide of Giorgio Mirelli, a boy-genius whom he has tutored, does not greatly perturb him. Nor even the strange daemon of the beautiful woman who caused the boy's suicide. Emotionless? Oh, no. But he has taught himself to control his emotions so that he can serve the spider and yet preserve something...
...Nestoroff, the woman is called. Before and after Giorgio Mirelli she has had many men. Her proclivity for throwing her very beautiful body away on gutter types right after it has been worshiped by refined slaves, suggests degeneracy to most of her critics. The impassive Gubbio thinks not. He can understand it is her subtle revenge upon men who desire only that part of her which she scorns. Her revenge upon Giorgio, a pure youth, an artist, had to be yet more subtle because the injury he did her was worse than the others. He enjoyed only her body...
...Nestoroff is a woman who can keep herself, almost, beyond pity or fear. Giorgio's suicide was truly satisfying to her. Now she is quite happy with Carlo Ferro, the hirsute Sicilian actor. His domination keeps her strong against remorse for Giorgio. She is sufficiently in love to be anxious for Carlo's safety in a scene where he is to kill a charging tiger, a very real beast the company has obtained because it was too dangerous for the park at Rome. She insists on precautions...
...with whom the Nestoroff betrayed Giorgio was the latter's sister's fiancé, one Aldo Nuti. Aldo now reappears, just before the taking of the tiger scene. He has come for her or for revenge. She scorns him. She turns his revenge upon himself. She traps him into offering himself as a substitute for her Sicilian in the tiger scene, then covers him with public derision for his heroics. He has not heard about the precautions...