Word: giovanni
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...most widely admired and envied Italian industrialist-the Numero Uno-is Giovanni Agnelli, the head of automaking Fiat. Turin-based Fiat, which has produced four out of every five cars on Italy's roads, has done more than any other Italian firm to shape the country's new affluence at home and influence abroad. "Agnelli has a mythology not unlike President Kennedy's," writes British Journalist Anthony Sampson in The New Europeans. "Clearly his presence fills some kind of psychological...
Last week, however, it turned out that the Christian Democrats were not so reliable themselves. On the eve of the annual party congress, Giovanni Leone, the Neapolitan lawyer who had guided the minority government during the five months since the election, abruptly handed in his resignation. He figured that his fellow Christian Democrats were going to fire him, so he quit. In rapid succession, Mariano Rumor, the Christian Democratic party secretary, resigned his post, and Aldo Moro, who held the job of Premier during the five years of the center-left coalition, surprised everyone by suddenly withdrawing his supporters from...
Despite Paul's admirably progressive reform of the Curia, the men who administer it are still for the most part conservative. The Secretary of State is the venerable Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, 83, and his chief assistant is the equally reactionary Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, 47. A brilliant administrator, Benelli is gradually emerging as one of the most important men in the Vatican-largely because he is considered the principal pipeline for information from...
...brushwork is highly personalized and uninhibited. The earthy zest and pounding rhythm of Luca Giordano's 1702 Crucifixion is all the more remarkable because the artist turned out his work at maximum speed; in his day, he was known as Luca fa presto, or Fast Worker Luca. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini's Fall of Phaëthon is built of thin, semitransparent layers of oil paint and has a lightness that the finished fresco undoubtedly lacked (the sketch has outlived the fresco, which was destroyed in World...
...born into the world of Shakespeare and Cervantes and died in the world of Corneille and Racine, was the greatest German composer before Bach. His surpassing importance as one of music's choral masters is exceeded only by his inexplicable anonymity. He absorbed the colossal Baroque style of Giovanni Gabrieli as well as the audacious innovations of Monteverdi, both Schutz's contemporaries and teachers, to forge a colorfully formal, intensely spiritual, quietly progressive style. In its unorthodox form, the Exequien looks forward to the cantatas of Bach and the oratorios of Handel. The work is characterized by an evangelical passion...