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...Enlightenment of the 18th century, the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa appointed a troop of spies known as Commissioners of Chastity to enforce her prim views. Said the irrepressible Giacomo Casanova: "They carried off to prison, at all hours of the day and from all the streets of Vienna, poor girls whom they found alone, who in most cases went out only to earn an honest living." Sodomy was long considered a capital offense, and the Marquis de Sade was sentenced to death for engaging in it. Hitler threw homosexuals into concentration camps. In recent years the resurgence of Islamic...
...their speeches to the Pope, both Giacomo Saban, lay president of Rome's Jewish community, and Rabbi Toaff called for the Vatican to extend diplomatic recognition to Israel, a divisive issue between the two faiths. "Spiritually and emotionally," said Saban, "Israel is central to the heart of every Jew." The Chief Rabbi took the issue a theological step further by stating that the return of the Jews to the homeland was part of "God's final plan of redemption." But John Paul in his 3,000-word address made no mention of Israel, and a Vatican spokesman later said that...
...more mixed reaction to the star's latest film, Claretta, directed by Cardinale's constant companion, Pasquale Squitieri. The comely Cardinale plays Mussolini's mistress, and some think the movie is too soft on II Duce. "The film is not about Mussolini," counters Producer Giacomo Pezzali. "It is about Claretta Petacci and her family. We've concentrated on the love story between Claretta and Mussolini. All we wanted to do was a film about this woman who was so very much like a character in a Greek tragedy...
...BOHEME by Giacomo Puccini...
...20th century music is that Italian opera should have gone into such decline. Italy, after all, gave birth to bel canto, and is the homeland of Rossini, Bellini and Verdi. Yet the effervescent melodic line that began with Monteverdi during the Renaissance exhausted itself with the death of Giacomo Puccini in 1924, and has been only fitfully revived by such contemporary figures as the late Luigi Dallapiccola. There is, it seems, a lost generation of Italian opera composers. But what happened to them...