Word: mago
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...number of patients who daily crowd Achille d'Angelo's waiting room in Rome are the names of some of the privileged ones who come by special appointment. For a bad left knee, Arturo Toscanini took ten treatments last summer from D'Angelo, self-styled Mago di Napoli (Wizard of Naples), and pronounced the man formidabile. Tenor Beniamino Gigli went in to be lifted from his nervous depression. Italy's Queen Maria José once sought D'Angelo's aid for her "weakened optic nerves...
...until one day in 1934, when he fell off his stilts and broke his skull. When he came to, as he tells it now, he amazed both himself and his nurse by his clairvoyant ability to recite her past. He set himself up in a back street as the Mago di Napoli and practiced clairvoyance...
...mago prospered in Naples, but on a tour three years ago he was convicted of practicing medicine without a license. While the case was on appeal (as it still is), he moved to Rome for still greater triumphs. But there, last week, the official Order of Doctors denounced D'Angelo to the public prosecutor for "abusive practice of the profession of medicine . . . [in] a series of acts which, apart from their penal unlawfulness, give open and real offense to science. Rome and Italy...
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