Word: lodovico
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...middle of the 15th century, few cities in Christendom bustled with such prosperity as Mantua, and few princelings patronized the arts so diligently as the Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga. His court painter was Andrea Mantegna. and the walls and ceilings of his grim Gothic castle boasted some of the master's finest work. This week, in that same castle, Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi opens an exhibition that should restore...
...melodic and elaborately embellished Handel work proved to be one of those baroque affairs full of knights, courtiers and disguised lovers, all involved in magical complications. (The 1735 libretto was taken from the famed Renaissance epic, Orlando Furioso, by Italian Poet Lodovico Ariosto.) The imaginative Dallas production made all this easier to take by treating the piece as a play within a play-a musical evening in the home of a nobleman of Handel's period, with the opera itself presented as an entertainment for the guests. The opulent, columned and chandeliered set had a revolving dais at stage...
Early in the xyth century, a Roman nobleman commissioned three famed artists of the day to paint their versions of Ecce Homo (Pilate presenting Christ to the mob). He bought the one that pleased him best, by Lodovico Cigoli, and eventually it passed to the Pitti Palace at Florence. Another version, by Domenico Passignano, is lost. The third, by the great Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, also disappeared...
...increasingly greedy. The holy promise was broken, just as it was in Sholom Ansky's mystical drama. This time The Dybbuk was having its U. S. premiere as an opera, which has had considerable success during the past two years in Europe. The music was by Italian Composer Lodovico Rocca, who spent four years in Palestine studying Hebrew moods and chants. The first production in English was proudly staged last week by Detroit's Civic Opera in Masonic Auditorium...
Because some of the listed objects were easier to acquire than others. Sportsman Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt was appointed to set handicaps. As the scavengers trooped back they deposited their trophies with Gene Tunney, Novelist Louis Bromneld, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia, Banker Charles Hayden, Prince Lodovico Spada Varalli Potenziani, ex- Governor of Rome, who awarded prizes of $500, $300 and two cases of champagne. First to return were Mrs. John C. Waterbury & Nicholas Holmsen, who brought back a white goat, complete with keeper, and a red lantern. From his pocket resourceful Mr. Holmsen extracted a live turtle...