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...Italy rolled north to Monte Cassino, the chief ornament of the monastery's Chapel of the Assumption was a handsome altarpiece of the Virgin. Then the ancient monastery threatened to become a defensive keystone for the Germans, and U.S. bombers leveled it.*The painting, by 17th-Century Paolo de Matteis, disappeared amid the rubble. Officially it was written off as a lost art treasure...
...charlatan for a view of the sunset, romp happily through a snake dance when they discover water gushing out of the ground. Then the gushers turn out to be oil, and a plutocrat snaps up the property on a tip from the camp's opportunistic sourpuss (Paolo Stoppa). The plutocrat sends his private police to oust the squatters...
Verdi: Nabucco (Paolo Silveri, baritone; Cabriella Gatti, soprano; Caterina Mancini, soprano; Mario Binci, tenor, and others; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Fernando Previtali conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Verdi's third opera, but the first to win him international fame. Composed when he was 29, Nabucco (short for Nebuchadnezzar) has much of the rousing spirit and power of Aïda and Otello. Performance and recording: excellent...
...rest of Roman Spring is pretty predictable: Mrs. Stone gets herself cruelly humiliated by the vicious Paolo and, at the end, drops him for another beautiful youth who has attracted her by making obscene gestures. Along the sordid route of this story, Williams offers such gems of wisdom as, ". . . beauty was a world of its own whose anarchy had a sort of godly license," and such gems of prose as, "Because you are very young, said Mrs. Stone, and very foolish and very beautiful. And because I am not so very young any more and not so beautiful, but beginning...
Since Mrs. Stone is never very real or substantial, no one can care much about her fate; it is doubtful whether even Author Williams cares much. He is much more credible when writing about those beautiful young men. One of his liveliest scenes shows Paolo getting himself a thrill from the ministrations of his barber. "The sensuality of that hour," Williams notes enthusiastically, "was exquisite as the jam of the gods...