Word: francesco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Directed by Francesco Rosi...
...hazy in Prato, and the town's artisans easily cross it. Twin brothers Enrico and Franco Rosati resigned from a family business in 1967 and founded their own company to produce carded wool. The twins' $24,000 investment has blossomed into annual sales of $40 million. Francesco and Rosa Palmieri moved north from Sicily 35 years ago and became itinerant clothing peddlers. Now they and their four children, with their spouses, own and work at a family firm whose sales have soared in ten years from...
...great capital: with 400,000 people, Naples was the largest city in Italy and, after London and Paris, the third largest in Europe. Its need for conspicuous display and luxury kept architects and builders in constant work. A few of them, like the artists Corrado Giaquinto (1703-66) and Francesco Solimena (1657-1747), or the architect Ferdinando Sanfelice (1675-1748), were touched with extraordinary talent. Most of the rest could deploy the kind of rhetorical eloquence and high technical polish that court art demands. Then there was a continuous infusion of foreign artists, German, French and English...
...Susan Larson, taking a part originally written for a male soprano; the Arnalta of Tenor Karl Dan Sorensen, playing a nursemaid in another of the opera's travesty roles; and the Ottone of Countertenor Jeffrey Gall. Kerry McCarthy made a vocally handsome, icily regal Poppea. Pearlman translated Giovanni Francesco Busenello's masterly libretto into idiomatic, singable English...
...time the Pope reached the Gemelli Polyclinic, he was barely conscious and bleeding heavily. A team of doctors headed by Francesco Crucitti immediately began the work of assessing the injuries. A sample of his blood was taken for quick typing (he requires not-too-common Type A, Rh-negative), and the doctors started giving him fluids intravenously. General anesthesia was administered through a tube inserted down his throat, which also facilitated breathing...