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...Beatrice he idolized was the wife of one Simone dei Bardi. Dante rarely met or spoke with her and she died very young. But, says Papini, Dante was no saint; there were "at least a dozen women in his life . . . there is no doubt that Dante was a sensual man." As a Catholic he was guilty of three besetting sins-lust, wrath, pride. "Dante is always a little aloof, and easily shows a surly temper. . . . [His] love is more of the head than the heart, more theological than evangelical." Of his wife Gemma and the children she bore him Papini...
...gave some of his own money to start, talked a quarter million dollars out of civic-proud Atlantans, made 101 trips through the South to raise another quarter million. On the cornerstone of New Oglethorpe's first building, laid in 1915, was engraved the pious motto Manu Dei Resurrexit (By the Hand of God She Has Risen from the Dead...
...Omnes sanctae Virgines et Viduae, orate pro nobis. Omnes Sancti et Sanctae Dei, intercedite pro nobis...
Commissioned last December from Maestro Don Lorenzo Perosi, the mass was sung last week by the famed Sistine Choir which was increased to 100 voices. In the musical sections surrounding this great central act of Roman Catholic faith, such as the Kyrie Eleison, Gloria, Credo, and Agnus Dei, the choir divided, one part taking the melody, the other singing as if in orchestral accompaniment. To assist at this mass with Pius XI as celebrant, 70,000 people jampacked St. Peter's. Among them were the King & Queen of Siam, the Crown Prince of Italy, 20 other European princes...
...from the New York Schola Cantorum and four expert soloists-Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Sigrid Onegin, Tenor Paul Althouse, Basso Ezio Pinza. Toscanini sang croakingly along with them but there were no complaints. The little Italian had never seemed so inspired as in the exalted Gloria, the prayerful Agnus Dei...