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...promptly and publicly denounced Greco's work. "It is like inserting a modern canto into The Divine Comedy," he complained, and resigned his post. Another leading antiquarian, Giorgio Bassani, described the doors as "outrageous, awkward, pseudo modern." Among the doors' defenders was Orvieto's bishop, Monsignor Virginio Dondeo, who contended that "each century should make its contribution to the cathedral...
...Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (an uncle of the present-day Paris couturier) reported mysterious lines, or canali, linking those dark areas. By 1906, Percival Lowell, an amateur astronomer and one of the Boston Lowells (his brother Abbott Lawrence was president of Harvard, his sister was Poet Amy), had plotted more than 700 canals at his Mars observatory in Arizona. He believed that the canals had been built by an advanced civilization desperately trying to tap moisture from polar ice to conserve its dwindling water supply...
...Gorgeous Godmother Sophia Loren who brought the wrath of L'Osservatore Romano down on everyone's heads. Sophia was asked by her sister Maria, wife of Pianist Romano Mussolini, to be godmother to two-week-old Alessandra. Unfortunately, Sophia's spiritual adviser, Jesuit Father Virginio Rotondi, neglected to tell her that in so doing she would be violating Article 2357 of canon law. So long as Italian and church law block Producer Carlo Ponti's divorce from his present wife-and his marriage to Sophia-she is living in "public concubinage" in the eyes...
Meanwhile ... In Monza, Italy, Virginio Bonfanti, arrested as a theft suspect while watching a Western in a movie house, insisted on staying to see the end of the movie, returned to see the film again when released on bail...
...Virginio Rotondi, a scholar who discusses religious questions on television, was talking about a case that had excited all Italy last month. Set upon by five teenagers who tried, unsuccessfully to rape her, pretty Alba Sbrighi, 19, had stabbed and killed one of her assailants with a rusty jackknife. Popular opinion was solidly behind Alba, who is now at liberty pending trial for murder. (The four remaining youths who attacked her are in jail.) But opinion was divided on Jesuit Rotondi's talk interpreting Alba' act in terms of Christian principle...