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...Both later accepted. Ambrose, at 35, had not been baptized when he was sent in 374 by the Roman Emperor Valentinian to address an assembly of Christians gathered at Milan to elect a bishop. His speech impressed the meeting. A child cried out: "Ambrose-bishop," and the meeting elected him by acclamation. Gregory (not to be confused with 16 Popes of that name) first refused, then accepted, the bishopric of Sasima. Later he took over his father's duties as Bishop of Nazianzus in Asia Minor, but he never accepted formal installation in that see. In 1808 the Pope...
Italy's Milan is one of Europe's liveliest modern art centers. Last week it buzzed with news of an artist who was anything but modern. An inarticulate and now almost blind peasant carver named Alberto Sani, he seemed to have been born 16 centuries after his time...
...villa in the province of Siena. The artist gave Sani plenty of time off for sculpture, taught him to work in stone. Sani insists that today he still carves just "to pass the time and make some money for my wife." But his works, on exhibition in a Milan gallery last week, could stand comparison with the most sophisticated examples of modern Italian sculpture...
...Toscanini conducted the world premiere of Giacomo Puccini's unfinished opera, Turandot, he abruptly stopped the show in the middle of the third act-at the point Puccini had reached when he died. In what was to Toscanini a perfectly adequate explanation, he turned to the audience in Milan's La Scala and announced simply, "Here Puccini ended his opera." He refused to go a note farther on that occasion, even though he admitted that Puccini's fellow composer Franco Alfano had done a good job of completing the score. Conductors since have not been so finicky...
...still singing with the company on the dark day in March 1933 when Hitler's hoodlums broke up Busch's performance of Rigoletto. Soon after Busch left the country, Schoeffler went to Vienna, where he sang throughout the war. Since the war, engagements at opera houses from Milan to Covent Garden have kept him on the move...