Word: salvatore
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Wish Fulfillment. In embryonic form, all of these Nabokovian traits and interests are present in The Waltz Invention. The hero, Salvator Waltz (Roland Hewgill), is a paranoiac who believes himself to be the possessor of a potentially earth-destroying machine that makes ordinary bombs look like firecrackers. Awaiting an interview...
Set in a nameless European republic in the middle '30s, the play is about a madman named Salvator Waltz and his infernal invention, a machine which, Waltz insists, can produce at any distance an explosion of incredible force. Preposterous, snorts the Minister of War. Waltz obligingly blasts the top...
His embellished buildings, his shadowy ruins and his ornate details introduced a style of lavish grandeur that found its way to the noble homes of England and to the chãteaux of imperial France. Modern critics like to point out that the sliced-up spaces of his prisons are...
"Cesti," wrote the Neapolitan landscape painter Salvator Rosa, "is the glory and splendor of the secular scene."
The Horrid, the Domestic. Many of the drawings are rooted in time through subject and costume. But some are amazingly modern, such as the watercolor of a gate near a 17th century Roman villa that is so filled with blinding light that its details are seen as in an overexposed...