Word: recanati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long a wealthy estate owner and patriarch in Recanati, near the Adriatic city of Ancona (he grows grapes, cures hams and plays boccie), Beniamino Gigli had left his home only to bid goodbye to his audiences-particularly, he said, to Americans. "I come not for the money or the artistic success to myself," he said, before taking off on a tour of major eastern cities. "I come for gratitude and for addio...
...Leopardi home was in the Adriatic town of Recanati, where today plaques mark the dwellings of men and women whose only fame is that they figure in Leopardi's poems. The young boy soon developed the habit of observing the life of the old town from upper windows (he scarcely ever left the house) and jotting down his observations in a notebook. At 10, he was turned loose in his father's library and spent the next seven years buried in books-"the happiest time that he had ever known...
Exchange of Pleasantries. In New London, Conn., Julio Recanati, 45, father of twelve, arrested and held for a mental examination after writing a series of love letters (including one of 465 pages) to an unmarried woman, explained: "There never was any serious purpose in my mind ... I thought maybe she'd say 'hello...
...Love Thee? In New London, Conn., when Family Man Julian Recanati was brought into court by a young woman who was uninterested in his flirtation, the judge ordered him to go home to his wife and to quit annoying the complainant with 465-page love letters...