Word: rossi
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...history of libraries in ancient and medieval Rome has not yet been written and can only be learned in a fragmentary manner. Prof. Rossi's recent work on this subject is by far the most important source of information...
Signor Chizzola, like all Italians, is eminently superstitious. He said, the other day: "I knew, before my season began with Rossi, that it would be a failure. Every one told me so, and the omens came out right, as always. The day Rossi arrived at St. Petersburg the Czar was killed. The day I signed a contract for America with him President Garfield was shot. The steamer we came over in took thirteen days to cross, and we arrived on a Friday. There were three carriages waiting at the boat when we arrived. The first street-car we took...
...Signor Rossi has declined the offer to appear at the Museum next month. He will go to Australia after his San Francisco engagement...
...Rossi and Mlle. Rhea, both failures in the East, are very popular in the Western cities...
...city theatre by professional actors, and for the benefit of the public at large, that the principal part should be delivered in Greek and the rest in English, seems but a poor and incongruous imitation of the manner in which our English tragedies have been lately represented by Rossi and Salvini. In their case there was some excuse, but in this we see none. Mr. Riddle would become as notorious, and make as much sensation by reading his lines in English as in Greek, and, moreover, would not give any ground for the charge of affectation. Since this manner...