Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Sept. 8 article "The Generous Lender," reference is made to a certain controversial figure whose unique banking methods are under investigation by the Italian Parliament. Your untrue statement says: "Not long after [Giambattista] Giuffre's black custom-built Fiat sedan drew up at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Cesta di Copparo, the Passionists had a new monastery, 20 new acres of farm land and an $850,000 Sanctuary to the Blessed Virgin of Peace." Signor Giuffre never visited outhouse at Cesta di Copparo, nor has he ever donated so much as one Italian lira...
...responsibility for Monty's opinions, Rome's Fascist ll Secolo snapped: "Pontius Pilate, sneering, washes his hands in the Thames." The Greeks, indignant about Cyprus and eager to join in any British-baiting, jumped in with praise of the "fighting spirit," in offense and defense, of the Italians who invaded Greece in 1940. Last week, at the personal request of British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Monty penned a letter to the British Ambassador in Rome, which he said was "no retraction" but was intended to soothe. "In my view, the Italian army is, today, as good...
Domenico Cimarosa was a fast and witty writer of Italian opera who cranked out some 65 works in a comparatively short lifetime (he died at 51). The only one that survives is No. 49-a comic opera titled ll Matrimonio Segreto, which pleased Austria's Emperor Leopold II so much at the premiere that he demanded a repeat of the entire score as an encore. Last week Manhattan concertgoers turned out to sample another side of Cimarosa's musical personality. The occasion: the first known public performance of a requiem Mass written by Cimarosa in Russia...
...seemed better suited to a festival than a funeral. The choral parts suggest passion rather than piety; the orchestra skips and trips along with a fine comic invention. The work is at its most exuberant in the solo parts, which are as warmly melodic as the love songs of Italian street singers. Many an Italian requiem, including Verdi's, is shot through with operatic overtones, but Cimarosa's work verges on opera so closely that it requires only the substitution of a bedroom plot to move intact to the stage. Not a major work, it was nevertheless...
...sales, seventh place last year. Competition is so intense that Fiat recently chopped prices from 2% to 15% clear across the board on its passenger and commercial line. Not to be outdone, Volkswagen lopped $300 (to $1,750) off its de luxe sedan. But the cut was for the Italian market only...