Word: giorni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aurelio Giorni: Trio in C Major (Max Hollaender, violin, Sterling Hunkins, cello, Eugene Kusmiak, piano; Musicraft: 7 sides). Interesting contrapuntal work by an Italian-American "musician's musician" who died at 43 in the New England hurricane last autumn...
...Europe, killed 60,000,000. Boccaccio's De cameron contains a vivid description of that epidemic in Italy: Daniel Defoe's History of the Plague of 1665 describes a visitation when 70,000 died in London. To prevent plague's spread, Venice segregated victims for 40 days (quaranta giorni) and thus originated quarantine...