Word: umberto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CONVERSATIONS WITH BERENSON recorded by Umberto Morra, translated by Florence Hammond. 305 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
Diamonds for Tears. The toast of tout Paris, Sarah accepted a diamond brooch from Alfonso XII of Spain, a necklace from Emperor Franz Josef, a fan from King Umberto of Italy, wore them all with élan. One admirer even ordered her a bicycle from Tiffany's studded with diamonds and rubies. Victor Hugo, after Sarah's performance in his play Hernani, wrote: "I wept. That tear ... is yours." He enclosed a tear-shaped diamond...
...lectures in commemoration of the seventh centennial of Dante's birth. Nino Pirrotta, Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, will speak Thursday evening at 8 p.m. in Boylston Hall on "Stil Nuovo, Ars Nova." Also speaking in the series will be Gianfranco Contini, of the University of Florence and Umberto Bosco, of the University of Rome...
...UMBERTO MASTROIANNI-Bonino, 7 West 57th. This major Italian sculptor (an uncle of Movie Actor Marcello Mastroianni) casts planks and lumps of bronze and gives the tortured results such names as Hiroshima, Violenza, Pearl Harbor. Together, they look like a junk heap of civilization from which blooms a brute mess of skulls, limbs and deformities: machine-age fleurs du mal. Through March...
Exiled KING UMBERTO II of Italy (right) and his host, former Republican Governor JOHN A. VOLPE, scan the Widener card catalogue for books about the monarch's former realm...