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...world crashing about their heads. Straight across the country's "ankle," from Naples on the west to Foggia and Bari on the east, the earth heaved in the most terrible disaster since a quake plus a tidal wave snuffed out the lives of 77,000 Sicilians and Calabrians at Messina in 1908. More than 3,500 were reported killed last week, and how many thousands were injured no man knew. For four days after the quake the earth that had leaped in convulsion quivered with minor earthquakes like a frightened horse...
...been shaken by innumerable minor and six major earthquakes. The 1456 quake wiped out 40,000 people in Naples, that of 1626, 70,000 more. In September 1693, 100,000 died in Sicily. Buildings fell and graveyards filled again in 1783. Many an Italian oldster remembers the horror of Messina in 1908. Obscured by War news was the quake of 1915 when 30,000 Italian lives were destroyed. Italian pacifists cried then: "This is God's justice on a bloodthirsty world...
Setting was simple; the solemnly stalking constables and the noblemen of Messina appeared before the same Palladian arch, altered to suit the needs of the scene; but the bright costumes of the players varied to fit the varied brilliance of the speech and the acting...
Salvemini will lecture at Harvard and Radcliffe on the history of Italy from the French Revolution to the end of the late war. He was formerly professor of Mediaeval and Modern History at the University of Messina, 1902-09, University of Pisa, 1909-17, and the University of Florence...
...Schiller's 'Brant von Messina", Professor Silz, Seyer...