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...chose Agilulf, the Duke of Turin, her late husband's brother-in-law. For his coronation as King of the Lombards, Pope Gregory the Great lent the sacred Iron Crown, which supposedly bore a nail from the Cross. The Pope had good reason, so the legend goes, to show Theodolinda this special favor. A fervent Roman Catholic, she persuaded her husband and most of his subjects to abandon the Arian heresy. For the first time in decades, a religious peace settled over the Lombards, and crime virtually disappeared...
...Florence, for instance. 135 priests died and only 85 were ordained during the past decade. In Genoa, bastion of crusading Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, seminary attendance has dropped 40% in the past 20 years, and 80% of the seminarians drop out before completing the twelve-year course. The seminaries in Turin are two-thirds empty...
...Italian auto exports declined 8% last year, Italian automakers hardly noticed the difference. In their own country, the prospering Italians are switching in such numbers from scooters to autos that the domestic demand more than offset the export slump. Fiat, Italy's biggest automaker, plans to expand its Turin plant to turn out 3,000 cars a day instead of the present...
...black, redlined cloak, black stockings and stiletto heels, Graziella Sciutti is now a familiar figure in Milan and an accepted operatic star all over Europe, but her career developed slowly. As a youngster in Turin, she studied singing, was later told that her voice was too frail for opera, and decided to become a concert singer. After her concert debut in 1950, she won a few operatic parts (Lucy in The Telephone, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro), did not really get launched until Herbert von Karajan cast her in the role of Frasquita in a 1955 production of Carmen...
Renowned as a structural engineer and a master of pre-stressed and pre-cast concrete, Nervi built the Turin Exhibition Hall with a one-and-one-half-inch thick concrete shell spanning 300 feet. He is a professor at the University of Rome...