Word: particella
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...dancer whose almost mythic embodiment of the erotic principle wreaks universal destruction and death, seemed to be the one modern opera that had everything: electrifying theatricality, sex, moral seriousness, virtuoso scoring-everything, that is, except a third act. When he died in 1935, Berg had completed the third act particella, or short score; but he left the orchestration incomplete and the act was never published. Ever since, opera companies have had to present Lulu in two acts, with a makeshift third act tacked...
Naturally the serial had to have a catch-eye title-one that would help sell the paper-and Young Benito called it, with sonorous sacrilege: Claudia Particella, L'Amante del Cardinalel; Grande Romanzo dei Tempi del Cardinale Emanuel Madruzzo...
...Claudia Particella, whose father was the Cardinal's counsellor, had retired to Castle Toblino, guarded and defended by a group of ruffians in whom the Cardinal placed the utmost confidence. . . . "Beneath her silken robe was visible the provocative outline of her body. . . . Her half-closed eyes understood the sorcery of poisonous passion...
...CLAUDIA PARTICELLA, THE CARDINAL'S MISTRESS: GRAND ROMANCE OF THE DAYS OP CARDINAL EMANUEL MADRUZZO-Benito Mussolini-A. & C. Boni ($2.00). *Today just such chairs are to be found in the sumptuous residence of Dictator Mussolini, no longer Socialist but Fascist...
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