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...publisher's warehouse in Milan last fall, Kalamazoo-born Conductor Thomas Schippers discovered an opera score dedicated to Queen Margherita * of Italy and tied up in purple string. In Spoleto last week, at the opening of Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds, he unwrapped his find before a capacity audience. Italian critics promptly hailed the long-forgotten work as one of the finest creations of Composer Gaetano Donizetti...
Italy's 15 million fumetti fans-readers of the photographic romance magazines that take their name from the dialogue balloons-usually go for soap-opera plots. But last winter a Milan fumetto entrepreneur, Pino Vignal, scored a modest inaugural success -80,000 copies-with a fumetto magazine based on the Bible...
Hailed at first as a way to bring the Bible closer to the people, Vignal's La Bibbia soon encountered more trials than Job. The Italian Rabbinical Council denounced La Bibbia as "sacrilege"; Milan's Roman Catholic Cardinal Montini withdrew the nihil obstat of the church. Sales slumped, and ugly rumors grew that Vignal's crew of actors, who posed for the crude Biblical scenes, lived private lives of less than Biblical probity...
Last week Milan cops arrested Vignal, unmasked him as one Giuseppe Tosini, well known to Roman law authorities as a swindler, cigarette smuggler, drunk and vagrant wanted on four counts. La Bibbia's fate-Tosini had two years worth of Scripture scripts-was left in doubt. To get the public and the Bible closer together, said Monsignor Enrico Galbiati, Milan's Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censor, it will be necessary to bring the public level up rather than drag the Bible down...
...19th century's great year of revolutions, Milan staged its famed Five Days' revolt against the Austrian rulers of northern Italy. Stepping out into the clamorous street, Hussar Colonel Angelo Pardi, youthful hero of Jean Giono's new novel, suddenly saw his fellow patriots like actors on a stage-officers strutting by, each with "a finger to his mustache as if to the trigger of a gun"; women's handkerchiefs fluttering from every balcony; grand carriages pulling aside to allow a princess in "working-class petticoats" to lead past a troop of volunteers. And Angelo himself...