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There is nothing really gay about his deceiver. As played by Ugo Tojnazzi, he is a victim of his own capacity for compassion; it saddens him that all three of his families cannot be unit-id-not for convenience' sake, but for love. Instead of heaving a sigh of relief when Marisa leaves him to go home, Sergio pursues her-and gets beaten up in rescuing her from her angry peasant family. Though his premiums are soaring, he insists on taking out equal insurance policies for all three women. To make ends meet, he begins moonlighting as a jazz...
...Ugo Betti's play is just as much of a sleeper as the production. One of the lesser-known worlds of a lesser-known playwright, Goat Island is a full-grown tragedy about a woman's search for moral certainty. Unlike other Betti plays, it manages not to get obsessed with the question of justice for its own sake. Betti was both a lawyer and a judge, but in Goat Island he uses the legal metaphor only as a structural device, a means of pushing the play's heroine toward her realization...
...Ugo Procacci, superintendent of the city's museums, the loss of the Cimabue was the major single catastrophe. "One of the hinges of Italian art," he said. "The work that opened the way for Giotto." But, says Procacci, "Not one percent of Florentine art was lost...
Though the loss in Florentine art was incalculable, Superintendent of Galleries Ugo Procacci gave assurance that "the Florence of the 15th century has withstood the fury of the elements and will be saved." The Italian economy was not so fortunate. Premier Moro said that the disaster had wiped out the nation's recent economic gains and warned Italians to be ready for "austerity and sacrifice...
Scholars had long had to take Vasari's word for it, since the frescoes seemed to have disappeared without a trace. But one who had not forgotten about them was Ugo Procacci, Florence's superintendent of galleries and formerly the Uffizi Gallery's chief restorer. While bundling off Florentine art treasures for safekeeping after the outset of World War II, he was struck by a five-paneled altarpiece in the Church of Santa Croce. Underneath the thick overpainting, his restorer's eye told him, might lie a masterpiece. So even in the haste of the moment...