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Late one night in June 1950, Giovanna Ricci, 35, wife of a Venice shopkeeper, gave birth to a fine, healthy boy. She had already borne two children without difficulty, and at first all seemed well. Then the attending midwife noticed symptoms of post-partum hemorrhage. Alarmed, she urged the Ricci family to call in Dr. Giovanni Lavezzi, who had examined Giovanna ten days before...
...town patient. Giovanna's sister-in-law told Lavezzi that they would get another doctor and called Dr. Luigi Gardin, obstetrical consultant at Venice's Ospedale al Mare. Gardin agreed to come, told Giovanna's husband Carlo to meet him at a square near his house. Ricci waited at the appointed place for 40 minutes, then telephoned Gardin again. The doctor's excuse: "I don't have the instruments for the job. The case has been turned over to Bruno Tagliapietra, staff doctor on duty at the city hospital...
Unaware of this buck-passing, Ricci started home after making his phone call, but met his brother-in-law, who reported that Giovanna now needed emergency treatment. Ricci ran over to the city hospital to find Tagliapietra, only to be informed that the doctor was busy...
...then it was 3 :30 a.m., and Giovanna had been hemorrhaging for an hour and 40 minutes. Frantically, Ricci finally went to the home of Dr. Francesco Strina, one of the city's best-known gynecologists. Awakened, Strina refused to go to Giovanna's aid; he would not "repair damage done" by the midwife, who, besides, worked with Dr. Lavezzi, a competitor...
Weber: Six Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Ruggiero Ricci, violin; Carlo Bussotti, piano: London). For all their outdated sighs and postures, these youthful works of the first genuine German Romantic composer (1786-1826) are melodious, unpretentious and full of charm...