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...your article on Composer Luigi Dallapiccola [TIME, May 29]: How many busybodies have written to inform you that his "Kafkaesque libretto" to Il Prigioniero was, with the exception of locale, lifted in its entirety from The Torture of Hope, a short story by [19th Century French Author] Villiers de L'Isle Adams...
...girls in dresses of white tulle with long white veils, and 200 other children in their best Sunday clothes, all from the village of Boscochiaro near Venice. Pretty five-year-old Ivana Pirollo clutched a bouquet of flowers. Ten-year-old Maria Bessan carried her eleven-month-old brother Luigi...
...bowls nearby leaped into the mass of choking children. Fisherman Bruno Pirollo pulled four little girls out, dived in again to search for his own Ivana. He did not find her. Don Moses Lionello dragged out two little girls, became hysterical. Maria Bessan had tightly hugged eleven-month-old Luigi during the fall, but had lost him struggling in the water...
Within half an hour all but 15 of the little girls and infant Luigi had been rescued, but all that day & night the canal was dragged for bodies while weeping parents watched. Then people began to ask why the bridge had collapsed. Only last December, at Don Moses Lionello's request, the bridge had been repaired. Some turned upon white-haired Gioacchino Bozzato who had built the bridge five years before. Builder Bozzato had no explanation. Among the missing children were his daughters, 13-year-old Dirce and one-year-old Albina, and an eleven-year-old niece Rosa...
...Italian musical circles, short, homely Composer Luigi Dallapiccola is affectionately known as Il Bruttino-The Ugly One. For some Italian critics, the name also applies to his dodecafonico music. In Italy, the land of Verdi and Puccini, Luigi Dallapiccola, 46, is the chief disciple of Arnold Schoenberg's strange-to-the-ear twelve-tone technique...