Word: renzo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, at their first birthday party, Isabella and Isotta Rossellini, twin daughters of Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman and Italian Director Roberto Rossellini, were neatly upstaged by their elder brother Robertino, 3, who did his best to beat them at blowing out their birthday candles. Half-brother Renzo, n, waited quietly in the background, apparently more interested in cake than in candles...
Like many another schoolboy, Giuseppe Conte, 16, a sophomore at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci High School, felt misunderstood. He was sure, for instance, that his math teacher had it in for him. He was always prepared, Giuseppe assured his parents, but Professor Renzo Modugno, a crippled war veteran, twisted the questions so he couldn't possibly answer. Last week, when the semester's grades were announced, Giuseppe heard that he had flunked his math. To make matters worse, Professor Modugno humiliated him by announcing that even the failing grade was higher than he deserved. Giuseppe walked...
Almost immediately, artists began drafting manifestoes denouncing the show as reactionary. Half the invited big names, including Painters Giorgio Morandi, Massimo Campigli, Renzo Vespignani and Sculptor Marino Marini, flatly refused to exhibit, and 50 of them dispatched a violently worded protest. Their big objection: the Quadriennale, traditionally a show of contemporary art, was devoting entirely too much space to the works of the dead. Countered exhibit officials: "After so much modern art, the visitor needs a hall or two in which to rest. To reproach us for this is like reproaching an exhibition for having...
Vengeance, Fate, Evil. The betrothed of Manzoni's title are two young Italian peasants, Renzo and Lucia, who lived near Milan in the time of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). In the very choice of such a hero & heroine, Manzoni kicked over the elegant traces that had bound Italian writers to the creaky old chariot of classicism. Free of that dead weight, his story tears off on a wild, romantic ride...
...Renzo's marriage is forestalled by a dastardly nobleman who, all of a licker for Lucia, intimidates the village priest and tries to kidnap the proud young beauty. A friendly Capuchin spirits her through all his snares to a distant convent. Meanwhile, heartbroken Renzo, breathing smoke and vengeance, flees to Milan. No sooner is he there than he is caught up in a bread riot and turned in to the police by an informer. Lucia, poor thing, falls into the power of an evil nun, who hands the girl over to the nun's own lover...