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...philosophy, law, history, medicine and anatomy the list of famous Neapolitans, is long. Remembering Parthenope, the clearest absent vision of her university is the quadrangle where stand the statues of those curious associates, two of whom came through martyrdom and exile to this peace--St. Thomas, Pietro della Vigna, Giordano Bruno. Pietro, Chancellor, of the Emperor Frederick II., and like him a poet, delivered his master's character to the university. Blinded by the Emperor, who trusted to forged letters, the work of onvy, "the harlot, who ne'er turned her gloating eyes from Caesar's household," he dashed...
...this he received in the '90's, the decorations of Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur and Cavaliere della Corona d'ltalia. Following his War-work as Chairman of the "American Poets' Ambulance in Italy" and President of the New York Committee of the Italian War Relief Fund of America, he received the following honors: Commendatore della Corona d'ltalia, Officier de I'Ordre de Leopold II (Belgian), Commander of the Order of St. Sava (Serbian), culminating in the high Italian award of Gran Cordone dell' Ordine SS. Maurisio e Lazaro, given in 1921, when President Harding accepted his resignation...
...Corriere della Sera, Milan daily, plaintively asked: "How shall we be able to buy from America grain, machinery, cotton, preserved goods, meats, etc., if we are not able to send to America our goods and the services of our emigrants? How can we pay our War debt of three and one-half billion lire if America refuses the only means of payment open to us-that is, the export of our goods and the labor of our emigrants...
Maestro Giordano, composer of Andrea Chenier and Fedora, now very popular throughout Italy, has completed a new opera which is to be produced sometime in the indefinitely near future at Milan. He has written music for Bellini's play La Cena della Beffe which the two male Barrymores played in this country as The Jest...
...drama is reduced to four minutes in the opera, because all the characters speak at once. The result must be striking if not effective. As yet no one is said to have heard the music except Giordano's wife. But the combined popularity of La Cena della Beffe and of Giordano in Italy should make a local success of the opera if its score is anything but excessively inferior...