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...Monza, by Mario Mazzucchelli. Based on archives opened six years ago in Milan, this book takes a fresh look at a lurid story that shocked 17th century Italy. It takes 14 years of solitary penitence before Sister Virginia of Monza is finally forgiven for her passionate, protracted love affair with a reckless nobleman...
...MONZA by Mario Mazzucchelli. 253 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Mario Thomas, 23, daughter of Comedian Danny Thomas, "started out to be quite normal and almost made it," but eventually turned from English teaching to a starring part in the Hollywood Civic Playhouse's Sunday in New York...
...keeping with his restless nature, Hilton is particularly fond of making flying visits to his chain or searching out new hotel sites. He scrambled like a mountain goat over Rome's Monte Mario to pick out just the right spot for the Cavalieri Hilton, declared with the spirit of a Medici commissioning a palace that he wanted it to be "a balcony of flowers overlooking Rome." Whenever Hilton appears at one of his hotels, the staff jumps to give him royal treatment-and sometimes stumbles. His bathtub at the New York Hilton was cracked, and at the Waldorf recently...
...issued anyway. Rudolf Schock made the biggest gain among tenors (14 to 38), but it must give him an edgy feeling to see that Enrico Caruso, silent these many years, is right behind him, having posthumously grown in popularity from 20 to 36, thanks to reissues of old recordings. Mario Del Monaco is the most recorded tenor with 39, Fernando Corena the most recorded basso (38), and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, with an astonishing jump from 46 to 82 recordings, the busiest baritone...