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...Livorno's Communist-line General Labor Federation, he bossed all union members. As a Communist deputy, he represented Livorno-and Joe Stalin-in the Chamber of Deputies at Rome. Under his potent trident, only card-carrying Commies and their friends could get jobs on the waterfront. His name: Vasco Jaccoponi...
Illuminations and cathedral bas-reliefs accompany the first two essays, "The Spirit of the Middle Ages" and "Medieval Life"; the third is illustrated by early Renaissance masterpieces of Giotto and Botticelli. Later comes "The Age of Exploration" with its hopeful, half-empty maps, Vasco da Gama in cap & gown, and a grinning mask which Montezuma presented to Cortes. The section on "The Protestant Reformation" includes a caricature doodled by a seminarian of his instructor, one John Calvin. The world's first modern observatory helps illustrate "The Dawn of Modern Science." Watteau's dimpled courtesans bring...
...HERO OF OUR TIME (211 pp.)-Vasco Pratolini-Prentice Hall...
Italian Novelist Vasco Pratolini seems to have sworn by the hair on Ernest Hemingway's chest to write a hard-boiled novel. A Hero of Our Time is obviously that. For long stretches it is also a sharp-eyed study of purblind passion. But Novelist Pratolini's political moral is a little crosseyed. He sets out to prove that Fascist ideas make prize heels. What he actually proves is that prize heels make good Fascists...
Puccini: The Girl of the Golden West (Carla Gavazzi, soprano; Ugo Savarese, baritone; Vasco Campagnano, tenor, and others; chorus and orchestra of Radio Italiana, Arturo Basile conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Puccini's "western" may have been rip-roaring stuff at its premiere at the Met in 1910, with Caruso singing and Toscanini conducting, but it sounds pretty flat now. Performance and recording: good...