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...into good society from very poor beginnings; and now he is engaged to Sofia, who is far from pretty but has a title. Pietro thinks of himself as the most honest and well-meaning of men, a kind of Roman Buchmanite. When his fiancée's brother, Matteo, quarrels with his wife, Maria Luisa, because she has discovered that Matteo is keeping a mistress, Pietro pants to help out. Maria Luisa has left her husband temporarily, is trying to nerve herself to get even with him by taking a lover. She dislikes Pietro, but for lack of anyone...
...prisoners were sentenced to life imprisonment, 109 others received sentences totaling 1500 years.* A ruckus broke out that sent the pigeons fluttering from the courthouse roof, set little Sicilian donkeys braying hilariously in the nearby marketplace. Prisoners spat, screamed, bit their thumbs at the jury, howled maledictions. Resourceful Matteo Balsamo, sentenced for life, tore off his shoes, hurled them with appropriate curses through the bars of his cage at the jury. The jury kept their shoes...
...Guider Park, Brooklyn, one Matteo Aurierno, 26, was found wandering in the dark, bleeding from deep stabs in his neck and hands. At the police station he related that, while strolling, he was thrown down and slashed by a "personable" woman who then fled, chortling...
...Capuchin order of friars, famed for preaching and ministrations to the poor, sprang from the Franciscans. They became a separate order in about the year 1520 when Matteo di Bassi decided that the habit worn by the Franciscans was not the one that St. Francis had worn. He made himself a pointed hood (capuche), allowed his beard to grow, went barefooted...
...Nymph" and "Dancer and Gazelies"; also an oil painting by James McNeill Whistler, "Symphony in blue and silver--Trouville." From J. Pierpont Morgan '89, 26 original drawings by Rembrandt, now on view in the Print Room. From Messrs. Duveen Bros., of New York City, a "Madonna and Child," by Matteo da Siena, and a "Madonna Adoring the Child," by Piero di Cosimo, on exhibition in the gallery. From Mortimer L. Schiff, the Cogswell collection of original drawings by old masters...