Word: lucca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woodward, Sophile Newcomb College Business Saturday, April 7 Fogg Art Museum at 8 P. M. A. B. Davies, Duncan Phillips, Washington The Appreciation of Art, A. K. Coomarasway, Museum of Fine Arts The Art Division of the American Ceramic Society, E. M. Blake, New York City Della Quercia in Lucca, G. G. Kings, Bryn Mawr College Christian Catacombs in Rome, Dana Rice, Dartmouth College Antiques, H. E. Keyes, Boston The Decorating of a State Capital, John Pickard, University of Missouri The American School at Athens in 1922, Myrtilla Avery, Princeton University The Principles of Portraiture, H. R. Cross...
...while the book is primarily concerned with Caruso's methods, a great deal of enjoyable biography creeps into it. Thus we hear of him as a schoolboy of Naples, playing hookey and swimming in the bay. He did not take kindly to education or to work in the De Lucca Mechanical Laboratories where his father was employed, and so on his mother's death, Enrico, aged fifteen, left home and became a scugnizzo, a wandering singer of the streets, singing for a few soldi or for the pure joy of song. He was called "Arichetielli," and soon became known...