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...Petrus" (Thou art Peter) sang the choir, and the ancient hymn set off a roar that swept across St. Peter's Square and down Via della Conciliazione to the Tiber's banks: "Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa!" His Holiness John XXIII, Bishop of Rome, 262nd Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, paused at the entrance to the Basilica of St. Peter, a square, strong rock of a man beneath the jeweled miter and glistening white robes...
Begin with Attila in the afternoon, when Washington Street is relatively quiet and the Paramount butters your popcorn twice. Attila is an unhappy retouching of the pre-fall Roman days when the Huns manifested their destiny and scourged their way to the Tiber...
...door that she could not go on. Because Callas herself had refused to have an understudy at rehearsal, the management had no choice but to cancel the rest of the performance. Cracked an American in the audience: "After this Casta Diva, they may just cast a diva into the Tiber...
ROMAN TALES, by Alberto Moravia (229 pp.; Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.75), seems to concern the ignoblest Romans of them all. Moravia's people live in small tenement rooms, work in brickyards, junkyards and poor taverns by the summer-shrunken Tiber. On Moravia's showing, at least, it is easy to see how their ancestors managed to run the world with very little show of conscience. Yet, though Moravia's characters lack conscience-though they are bent on mean personal advantage and are forever trying to trip their fellows into the gutter-they are all also victims themselves...
Separated from the rest of Rome by a loop of the muddy Tiber River, the people of the tough, teeming, poverty-ridden district known as Trastevere (meaning: across the Tiber) have thought of themselves as a people apart ever since the time of the Roman Empire. In those days, the gladiators of Trastevere put on the best and bloodiest shows of all, just as today Trastevere's tough soccer players are the best in all Italy. Many another superlative can be applied to Trastevere; its poverty is the deepest, its streets and alleyways the most crowded, its feasting...