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...Chosen One. Italian history tells of no other queen more gracious and pious than Theodolinda. She was the daughter of the Duke of Bavaria, and toward the end of the 6th century she married the powerful Authari, King of the warlike Lombards. Shortly thereafter, in 591, Authari died suddenly, some said by poison. Normally the death of a King would have precipitated a bloody scramble for the throne among local chiefs, with Theodolinda as a sort of door prize. But in the few years she had been Queen, Theodolinda had become so beloved among the Lombards that they insisted that...
While working on the translation, Fitzgerald lived around the Mediterranean, made a few pious visits to Homer's islands. On one visit to Ithaca, he spent a morning chatting with some old men who had no suspicion of his sinister scholarly mission. One of the oldsters suddenly stared out to sea and said: "They say he still turns up around here, a soldier, a seaman, an old bum or something." Fitzgerald did not crowd his scholar's luck by asking any questions, but accepted gratefully this intimation that Homer's world was not dead-nor his Odysseus...
...dispel any pious delusions that the Symphony Hall Holy Week program, presented by the Boston Symphony and the two University choruses, was a sacred one. Neither Bruckner's Te Deum, Wagner's Good Friday Spell from Parsifal nor Faure's Requiem limit themselves to liturgical and theological ends. Their Christianity is a useful vehicle for the composers' larger musical or intellectual notions (if indeed the ideas in the Wagner or Faure are really Christian...
...story concerns the pitiful boyhood and youth of Michael O'Donovan (Frank O'Connor is a pen name) in a wet, ruined, pious and oppressed Cork slum. Young Michael was heir to every misery that could afflict a boy: bad teeth, bad eyes, failure and constant canings at school, disgrace in his first wretched jobs, and the horror of a miserly, sententious and drunken father. James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork. Yet by some miracle...
...probable that there is very little history in the second chapter of Matthew. Except as a pious enlargement intended to show the manifestation of Christ to the gentile world, few historical details mentioned in Matthew 2 (including the existence of the Magi) are to be considered credible...