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Leopardi: A Study in Solitude is the foremost appreciation in English of the poet whom Italy ranks next to her greatest-Dante, Petrarch, Tasso. First printed in 1935 (but never before in the U.S.), it reappears now containing so much new matter that it is virtually a new book. Or, to put it another way, British-born Marchesa Iris Origo has dredged up so much new misery that Leopardi may now be seen to have been even unhappier than he was in the first edition...
Measured Gravity. One of the greats who got an unwelcome notice was Franz Liszt. After Liszt dropped his dazzling career as a pianist to compose his bombastic symphonic poems (Tasso, Les Preludes, Mazeppa), Hanslick wrote with measured gravity: "The musical world has suffered, in the virtuoso's abdication, a loss which the composer's succession can hardly compensate." Liszt stuck to his composing, but the verdict of time supports Critic Hanslick...
...shorter ballets are also in the program. "Le Combat" is based on a canto of Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered." In it Collette Marchand, who also stars in "L'Oeuf a la Coque," dances beautifully in a more traditional style. "Le Rendevous" is a somber and moody ballet of Paris which features Henry Danton. As good as they are, these suffer by comparison with such excitingly imaginative spectacles as "Carmen" and "L'Oeuf a la Coque...
...ship, and flower stalls packed with daffodils and mimosa. Sometimes Keats walked. Sometimes he puzzled over books in Italian. Sometimes he wrote to Fanny Brawne (the flirtatious girl he loved) or about her. Sometimes he talked about his unfinished work, said he would have become a greater poet than Tasso if he had been allowed to live...
Buildings and parks still bore the scars of Nazi bullets, fired into Italian crowds by Nazi soldiers. Correspondents visited a Nazi torture chamber in the Gestapo jail at No. 145 Via Tasso, talked with Angelo Yoppi, a hopeless cripple after 52 days' imprisonment there with his hands and legs tied behind his back. They peered into a cavern on Rome's outskirts, where the Nazis had piled like cordwood some 500 Italians massacred last March in reprisal for the grenade-killing of 32 German soldiers; now weeping Romans stood at the tomb's mouth, searching for relatives...