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...Among other women in his life: Revolutionist Angelica Balabanoff; Barmaid Rachele Guidi, his common-law wife (later legal) for ten years; the brilliant exiled Jewess, Margherita Sarfatti; the sisters Maria and Francesca Ferroni; and slim, brown-eyed Claretta Petacci, daughter of a former Vatican surgeon...
...while he was waiting for death - his friendship with Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; his affairs with various Venetian slum women and men ; his services as a gigolo-extraordinary to dumpy, dull, married Countess Teresa Guiccioli. It is also an account of his most active years as a romantic revolutionist, and of some of his most productive years as a poet...
...Miles, Grant and Vincent -moved in on Minneapolis industry in 1934. Of the three, Vincent is the blazingest ball of fire. Born in Minnesota's agricultural country, he streaked into the woods at an early age to be a lumberjack, joined the I.W.W. and became an ardent Wobbly revolutionist. In Minneapolis he signed up with the Communist Party...
...bearded Judas emerges as a shifty, bootlicking, debt-ridden chiseler, and a onetime lover of Mary Magdalene. High Priest Caiaphas is a pompous, bull-like prelate, Pilate an ineffectual figure. In a rather too pat invention, the "good thief" crucified along with Jesus is no thief but a revolutionist whose daughter is a Christian. The miracles, and the appearance of angels at the tomb of Jesus, are reported matter-of-factly...
...very convincing if a little too neat. Every war has to have its ideological devils. In World War I, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer were elected. This time, it seems, a first-rate scientist and a first-rate musician are to be blamed equally with a class-conscious revolutionist...