Word: volpi
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...little more than a soap bubble around his wife Jane Fonda. The U.S., displaying more invention than intelligence, came up with Chappaqua, a booze-and-drug Upanishad displaying Allen Ginsberg, the poor man's Whitman. The festival scene had become such a cluttered junkyard that Count Giovanni Volpi, son of the competition's originator, disowned the whole thing with the melancholy statement: "The hopes of Venice are again deluded...
...been In for years. After the 15th of June, the right thing is to slip over to Venice for a couple of weeks. There, of course, it would be best to have one's own palazzo-President Kennedy's friends, the Charles Wrights-mans, do. Countess Natalie Volpi's pied a terre is a good example of style in Venice. The countess usually spends about a fortnight there in June; then off to Rome and other In spots until September, when Venice is Right again, for a while. Tethered outside when she is in residence...
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...
...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...