Word: italianisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mysterious. Now, thanks to new scientific techniques that allow the murals to be removed, the U.S. public will be able to see with its own eyes a bountiful portion of the quattrocento's springtime splendor. With $150,000 from Italy's Olivetti and the approval of the Italian government and Rome's Pontifical Commission on Sacred Art, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum this week puts on view 46 frescoes from walls in Tuscany. Many were removed from their original locations and mounted on separate panels during the past two years because of severe damage resulting from...
VIRTUALLY none of the masterworks from one of the greatest eras of painting have ever been shown in the U.S. or anywhere else outside their native land. These are the fresco paintings of Italy, some of the transcendent achievements of the Italian Renaissance. For centuries, art lovers have had to admire them by reputation and reproduction. To see them firsthand required a trip to Italy. Before oil painting was imported from Northern Europe and the artist's vision shrank to the size of canvases that could be moved from wall to wall, the greatest Gothic and Renaissance artists decorated...
...decrease in the intermediate language course enrollment--in French, Spanish, and Italian C--similarly reflects the new requirements, Dwight Bollinger, Coordinator of Language Instruction for the department of Romance Languages and Literature, said yesterday. He called an apparent rise in the number of beginning French, Spanish, and Italian students the result of freshmen being required to take a language during their first year...
ANTONIO IN LOVE, by Giuseppe Berto. This is a simple story of boy meets girl, Italian style, which has been given significance and deep resonance by the author's elaborate prose and by his sense of irony...
...sulks, pop takes up with a willowy tour guide, and mom settles down with a handsome French millionaire. Like all TV sitchcoms, How Sweet It Is! culminates in a stock comedy scene. This time it takes place in an Italian bordello, where too many kooks spoil the brothel...