Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long urged the Vatican to send an American as Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., especially since Britain has an English-born Papal representative. Present occupant of the hand some $1,000,000 Apostolic Delegation on Washington's Embassy Row is an Italian, the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. Bishop-elect Hurley's six-year tenure at the Vatican, plus the diplomatic posts he has capably filled in India and Japan, make him a logical choice...
Died. Alessandro Bonci, 70, onetime tenor for the Metropolitan, Manhattan and Chicago Opera Companies, temperamental rival of the great Enrico Caruso; in Rome. Famed for his roles of Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme, Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva in Rossini's Barber of Seville, diminutive Bonci was long on technique, short on volume, made up in lyrical effect what he lacked in lung power...
...where the Minotaur in his labyrinth used to devour sacrificial Greek virgins-6-inch naval gunfire bellowed over the blue Mediterranean one morning last week. The 6,830-ton Australian cruiser Sydney had engaged two Italian cruisers of the 5,06g-ton Condottieri class-the Bartolomeo Colleoni and the Giovanni delle Bande Nere.* These ships can make 38 knots to the Sydney'?, 32.5. They have the same fire power (eight 6-inch guns each) but the Italians are lightly armored, designed especially to catch and destroy destroyers. Two British destroyers spotted them first and flashed word to the Sydney...
...Soldiers of fortune during the Renaissance, the namesakes of both these ships are familiar in effigy to most U. S. tourists. The statue of Colleoni by Verrocchio, which stands in the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice is one of the world's great equestrian statues; several casts of it are in U. S. museums. The statue of Giovanni delle Bande Nere (a Medici, only one of the family who ever became a soldier) sits before the Medici church of San Lorenzo in Florence. Its sculptor was Baccio Bandinelli who considered himself a rival of Michelangelo. Michelangelo himself...
...thousand more noncommissioned officers were called to their regiments, soldiers in full equipment marched through border towns, railroad stations clanged with freight cars moving artillery and munitions northwest toward the frontier of France. At week's end Editor Giovanni Ansaldo of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's Leghorn newspaper Il Telegrafo broadcast word to the troops that the quiet mobilization that had been going on for several weeks was mobilization for war. As to Italy's reasons for going to war, Editor Ansaldo, in addition to those of territorial aggrandizement, put forth a unique reason. "How could...