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...Company has arranged a special performance for "Harvard Night," on February 3. "La Cena Delle Beffe" will be the presentation. Although widely known in its literary and dramatic aspects, it has never been sung in Boston. This great and colorful music drama of Florence in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent will be remembered as the vehicle in which John and Lionel Barrymore established an epoch-making success under the title "The Jest...
...past years, the Company has arranged a special performance for "Harvard Night", which is on Thursday, February 3. On this occasion, "La Cena Delle Beffe", a great and colorful music drama of Florence in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent and which has never before been given in Boston, will be presented. Claudia Muzio, one of the foremost prima donnas, will sing the leading role...
...Born at Florence in 1469 at the apogee of Florentine glory under Lorenzo de Medici ("The Magnificent"), Niccolo Machiavelli remains the most celebrated commentator on the brilliant and ruthless statesmanship of the Borgia, Sforza and Medici. When the Prince was translated into English many an Anglo-Saxon was appalled that so many truths about the baseness of men and how to play upon it should ever have been set down in type. Machiavelli was suspected by simple souls of having been the devil himself, and the adjective "Machiavellian" was introduced into English with the connotation "diabolic." Machiavellian maxims...
...Monsignor Lorenzo Lauri, who succeeded Monsignor Achille Ratti as Apostolic Nuncio to Poland when he (the present Pope) was elevated to the Cardinalate in 1921. The other Italian whom His Holiness slated for elevation last week, is Monsignor Giuseppe Gamba, whom he appointed Archbishop of Turin in 1923. The investiture of the former will be performed by President Moscicki of Poland at Warsaw...
...Broadway saw The Jest, a gruesome melodrama of mediaeval Florence in the time of Lorenzo, the Magnificent. With swaggering desperadoes, vengeful noblemen, witching ladies, it embodies the virtues and vices of pronounced melodrama...