Word: girolamo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brigatisti, however, did leave a new trail of blood with two hit-and-run attacks. In the first, Girolamo Mechelli, 54, a Christian Democratic politician, was jumped by two gunmen who pumped five bullets into his legs. In Turin, two men and a woman shot Sergio Palmieri, 41, a Fiat labor relations official, also in the legs, as he left for work. At week's end these terrorists were still at large. Authorities, however, issued arrest warrants for six men and three women who were charged with Moro's abduction and the killing of his five bodyguards...
More Libyans. Tired of both their poverty and their tranquillity, some Pantellerians are happy at the prospect of invasion and are set to welcome just about anyone. "For national reasons I suppose I should be protesting against Gaddafi," says Girolamo Sechi, a city councilman. "Instead, I say, 'Welcome,' and the more Libyans the better. They're going to bring 2,000 tourist beds, whereas now we have only 1,000." Adds Giuseppe Cornado, the island's postmaster, with a long sigh: "Gaddafi or NATO. I don't care who it is, just so they bring...
...Girolamo Fantini and Giovanni Viviani were two minor seventeenth-century composers whose works blend into the amorphous mass of early Italian baroque music. The musical content of three of their sonatas was so slender that all attention was drawn to the majestic sound of the trumpet. Baroque trumpet is a far different instrument from its contemporary counterpart. A narrow bore gives it a piercing sound, and pitch production is based on the natural overtone series, produced solely by lip inflection without the aid of keys. The result is a melodic scale available only in the third octave above fundamental pitch...
...THAT GOT PREGNANT? Now the Council has outdone itself. On the cover of 200,000 pamphlets that will be distributed to British high school and college students and local medical clinics later this month is a posed reconstruction of a 200-year-old engraving of Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, the 18th century courtier whose name is a byword for sexual adventurism. It shows the world's most famous seducer kneeling before a bare-breasted and obviously willing maiden. The moral of the scene, says the caption: CASANOVA NEVER GOT ANYBODY INTO TROUBLE...