Word: padua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot, briefly, is as follows: Rosaura and Beatrice, daughters of Doctor Balanzoni, are courted respectively by Florindo, a medical student living in the doctor's house, and by Ottavio, a gentleman of Padua. Florindo's timidity, however, prevents him from declaring his love except by indirect methods. He causes Rosaura to be serenaded by hired musicians, sends her, anonymously, a gift of lace; and composes a poem setting forth his love, but containing only vague hints of his identity. Instead of handing her the verses himself, he throws them on her balcony...
...Aldo Sorani in II Secolo, Milan journal, wrote bitterly regretting the palmy days of Italian universities, in which those of Padua and Bologna used to attract the students of the world...
...recently gave a series of four lectures on Italian art at the Episcopal Theological School, will deliver a lecture on the same subject for the benefit of the public at the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Carruth's subject will be "Giotto at Padua; a study of his free goes in the Arena Chapel". The lecture will be illustrated with reproductions in color...
...Carruth will speak on Wednesday, February 14, at 4.30 o'clock, in the Fogg Art Museum, he announced last night. His subject will be "Glotto's frescoes in the Arena Chapel at Padua...