Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earliest exhibit is St. Thomas Acquinas's "Summa de Articulis Fidei", printed at Mainz about 1460 and attributed to Gutenberg, and along with it are several well-preserved Florentine and Venetian volumes...
...President Arnaldo Frigessi Di Ratalma "voluntarily resigned" as head of this great port's biggest insurance firm Riunione Adriatica, which elected as his successor non-Jewish Fulvio Suvich, Italian Ambassador to the U. S. who is now in Italy. Jewish President Edgardo Morpurgo of Assicurazioni Generali, the great Venetian insurance firm, likewise resigned last week and was replaced by famed Count Volpi, who in 1925 as Finance Minister negotiated the Italo-U. S. debt accord. Swank Countess Volpi is a Jewess and so is the old mother of Fascist Minister of Education Giuseppe Bottai. Indeed, so many Jews...
...Fascist State set about overcoming this shameful symphonic weakness. Officially smiled upon was a group of contemporary Italian orchestral composers, headed by the late Ottorino Respighi (Pini di Roma), lean-faced Ildebrando Pizzetti (Rondo Veneziano), gloomy, Venetian-born Gian Francesco Malipiero (Pause del Silenzio) and dapper, energetic Alfredo Casella (La Giara). Dominant influence on these composers was that of French Impressionists Debussy and Ravel, though Casella and Malipiero occasionally toddled in Stravinsky's footsteps...
...gongs, cymbals and tinklers, were unknown in the Western world until Roman churches began using them in the 5th century, A. D. In the Spear collection are bells from the period when the first European bells were cast instead of being made from metal plates. Others: fragile bells of Venetian glass, Italian Renaissance bells of bronze, children's play bells from 17th-Century Spain, Austrian bells of chased silver, a Chinese porcelain bell of the Sung dynasty. One tiny gold bell in the form of a jaguar's head, found in Costa Rica, can be viewed only...
...this, his only full-fledged opera, Purcell bases his texture on the Venetian School, and more especially on Lully. He exhibits a strong bent to the use of a basso ostenato, basing his melodic line on the structure of his bass part...