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...Rome has politics, ruins and the Pope," sniffed a Milanese last week, "but Milan is the real capital of Italy-the financial, commercial, industrial, musical, artistic, theatrical, publishing, jazz and striptease capital. What more do you want...
...tourists, Milan seems the most American of Italian cities. With skyscrapers by the score, supermarkets, corner gas stations, public swimming pools, installment buying, and a completely un-Latin pace and bustle, Milan has more the flavor of Cleveland or Baltimore than of Florence or Naples. And that is the way the 1,500,000 citizens of Milan like...
...cardinals and top members of the hierarchy; his reception ranged from Boston's outdoor banners and hi-fied hymns to a dinner given for him in Washington by the Most Rev. Egidio Vagnozzi, apostolic delegate to the U.S. The visitor: Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini, 62, Archbishop of Milan, one of the most influential cardinals, whose trip (according to Vatican reports) was partly connected with the U.S. elections...
Poet Quasimodo, 58, does not take it lightly that his countrymen rank him so modestly. A professor of literature (Milan Academy of Music), with children in their 20s and a mistress who is their contemporary, he makes enemies easily and does not easily forget them. Having long since recovered from his first silence about the Nobel Prize, he now sees it as a victory in a battle in which he "fought alone'' while "my adversaries, that is, the other candidates, had great forces." In this selection from his work, U.S. readers now have a chance to inspect...
Florence (May to-June 30). Celebrates the 200th anniversary of Florentine Composer Luigi Cherubini's birth with the first modern performance of his long-forgotten Elisa. The Maggio Musicale will also offer a handful of 20th century works, including Janacek's Jenufa, will feature concerts by Milan's Nuovo Quartette, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Warsaw, Violinist Isaac Stern...