Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Pier Angeli (real name: Anna Marie Pierangeli), 23, piquant Italian-born cinemactress, and Vic Damone (real name: Vito Farinola), Brooklyn-born crooner and cinemactor, 27: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Perry Rocco Luigi. Weight...
...better than ever; record sales began to climb. He started to freelance in TV on a larger scale, and to look around for roles he really liked in the movies. Along came Eternity. "That's me!" said Frank Sinatra when he read about the roistering, ill-starred little Italian named Maggio. He wanted the part so badly that he offered to play it for only $1,000 a week, made only $8,000 on the picture...
...small pair of cityscapes by Francesco Guardi sold for $7,700 in 1946, brought $25,200 at auction in London last March. One reason for the comeback: the present fashion for imitation 18th century interiors. (Because early Renaissance furniture does not appeal to decorators this year, prices for Italian primitives are down...
MASTRO-DON GESUALDO, by Giovanni Verga (454 pp.; Grove Press; $3.50) is now reissued in the U.S. for the first time in 20 years. When D. H. Lawrence, who translated the book from the Italian, first discovered the works of Giovanni Verga, he wrote enthusiastically: "He is extraordinarily good-peasant-quite modern-Homeric . . ." Best known outside Italy for a minor work-his story Cavalleria Rusticana, on which the libretto for Mascagni's opera was based-Author Verga ranks second only to Manzoni among Italian novelists. Born in Sicily in 1840, he planned as his major work a kind...
...between tough, energetic Mastro-don Gesualdo and that gentry-with the rich ones who connive to block his designs on their dwindling lands, with the impoverished ones who sneer at his peasant origins while scheming to trap him into marriage with their daughters. The dialogue may be racy in Italian, but in Lawrence's English it comes out as a series of blurted phrases overloaded with sarcasm and exclamation points. It all seems as noisy as an Italian kitchen when the pasta has boiled over on the baby. But Novelist Verga tells his story with a superb...