Word: milan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scala, in Milan, Arturo Toscanini conducted a new opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti. Its story, taken from a mediaeval monk's chronicle, was that of "a young Parman of low birth, layman, idiot, and fool," one Gherardhino Segarello, whose reckless career of devotion and debauchery caused him to be put in jail, led out only to amuse guests when the Bishop of Parma gave a banquet. Pizzetti had chosen to make a martyr of this squalid clown, to endow his dishonorable poverty with Franciscan splendor...
When months are cold, placid Donna Rachele Mussolini dwells with her children in Milan; but with approaching spring she moves out to the Mussolini estate at Forli, where, each summer, Il Duce indulges in a brief fit of farm labor which he calls "fighting the battle of the grain." At such times, and during the Christmas and Easter visits of Signor Mussolini to Milan, it is possible that he is persuaded, cajoled, nagged. But he is only known to have yielded once. On this occasion-just prior to the birth of Babe Romano-Donna Mussolini begged and received a decree...
...final postlude of the tragedy came, last week, when the mangled remains of the victims were assembled for a stately mass funeral in the great Cathedral of Milan. Prayers were offered and blessings invoked by Eugenio Cardinal Tosi, revered Archbishop of Milan...
While Heaven thus offered Consolation the earthy newshawks of Milan were busy assembling the final grisly details of the bomb-butchery. A small boy had been beheaded by a flying segment of the fatal lamp post. A young woman's leg had been cut off. An old woman had died, although unhurt, simply of fright. Saddest of all was the tragedy of a father who had learned that his wife and five children were so gravely injured that Death might be expected to lay a cold hand upon all of them within a few hours. Maddened with grief...
...telling contrast to these blatancies, came news that Signor Mussolini was unusually active last week in participating in a series of quiet conferences with visiting foreign statesmen, which began when he received Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey in Milan (TIME, April 16). Further august visitors received last week were Prime Minister Count Bethlen of Hungary, Foreign Minister August Zaleski of Poland, Foreign Minister Andrew Michalapoulos of Greece, and German Finance Minister Dr. Heinrich Koehler...