Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill of health of which it may well be proud, as appears in this morning's article for the Confidential Guide, one criticism that was voiced had to do with the introductory survey courses to the field. For this year Fine Arts 1c, dealing with ancient, Greek, and Roman art has been expanded into a full course, Fine Arts A, while the far more important Fine Arts 1d, the course in medieval, Renaissance, and modern art, has been left at its half year status...
...obvious remedy for this condition would be to go back to the old plan of a full year course in the important phases of art since the Christian era, and to cut the full course in the Greek and Roman art to its half-course ranking. Thus it would be possible for the outsider to take in the whole range of art in a year and a half and for the concentrator to enjoy a fuller survey of the territory to be covered in his first year in the field...
...world. Already he has raised himself into good society from very poor beginnings; and now he is engaged to Sofia, who is far from pretty but has a title. Pietro thinks of himself as the most honest and well-meaning of men, a kind of Roman Buchmanite. When his fiancée's brother, Matteo, quarrels with his wife, Maria Luisa, because she has discovered that Matteo is keeping a mistress, Pietro pants to help out. Maria Luisa has left her husband temporarily, is trying to nerve herself to get even with him by taking a lover. She dislikes...
...brother. Stefano is now a cripple and nearly penniless; his rich sister will have nothing to do with him. Andreina hates Stefano, but to plague Pietro she ousts him, takes the cripple again as her lover. Hatred of everyone and everything becomes more & more her guiding passion. By Roman law, crippled Brother Stefano, not Husband Matteo, stands to inherit Maria Luisa's wealth at her death. Thinking that if Stefano has the money it would be as good as hers, Andreina determines that Maria Luisa shall die. She tries to get Pietro to do the job; he will...
...such a strictly non-political novel could be considered out of line, even in such a rectilinear country as Duceland. But, though the book was not suppressed, the Italian press gave it not a single mention. Reason: The ruler of Rome's hive does not approve of such Roman drones as Moravia writes about, prefers to ignore their existence...