Word: volpi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rome's operagoers remember Giuseppe Di Stefano as the handsome young tenor who sang Manon one night when terrible-tempered Tenor Lauri-Volpi fitfully refused to go on. But even before that, Di Stefano had gotten ovations that reached the ears of U.S. booking agents...
...ring nevertheless was not above outright confiscation. In the voluminous records kept of his collection, there is documentation on the treasures belonging to the Prince of Hesse, Count Volpi "and other Italians inimical to Germany." These objects, according to the records, were confiscated by the Sicherheitsdienst (security police...
...French longed for the old Count too, but not quite in the same spirit. The French would like to lay hands on Volpi as a Fascist war criminal. Better the discomforts of a $75-a-day suite in a Swiss hotel than that! Lausanne might seem somewhat provincial after Rome. But better last in a little Helvetian city than priority rating on a list of war criminals in Rome or Paris...
...once Italian propaganda minister and ambassador to Berlin, shunned the Roman revels at the Palace Hotel. He preferred his own serious set at the swank Golf & Sport Hotel at Crans-sur-Sierre. For Alfieri was talking about forming a new political party, still dreaming about returning to Italy. Count Volpi shook his head...
...brave new world that the Fascists had done so much to create, the idea of sanctuary was less & less respected. Powerful pressure might be exerted across the Swiss frontiers. Well might Count Volpi brood upon the thought that by the time this spring's magnolia petals had fallen, he might be a good deal less reflective and a good deal more frightened...