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Here is an extraordinary good opera-house; admirable dancers, who performed a mighty pretty pantomime Comedie larmoyante without words; I liked it vastly. The famous Soprano singer Bedini was at Lucca; but here is our old London favourite Signora Giorgi, improved into a degree of perfection seldom found, and from her little expected. Mr.
Meanwhile, amid crowds of Cardinals in hunting-dress, dances of half-naked girls, and masques of Carnival Bacchantes, moved pilgrims from the North with wide, astonished, woeful eyes disciples of Luther, in whose soul, as in a scabbard, lay sheathed the sword of the Spirit, ready to flash forth and smite. See Gregorovius, Stadt Rom, book xiv. ch. 3. 'Relazione di Marino Giorgi, March 17, 1517.
The letter written to General Di Giorgi was as follows: "Carpi, Italy, April 26, 1919. "His Excellency, General Antonio Di Giorgi: "I have been in the Y. M. C. A. service in Italy since September 28, 1918. I am fond of the people of Italy and at all times have been justly and fairly treated by them; and the officers and soldiers constituting her great army have been especially kind to me.
The Venetian ambassador at Rome, Marino Giorgi, whose feelings were quite the other way, took, in his diplomatic capacity, a malicious pleasure in disquieting him. "Holy father," said he, "the Most Christian King is there in person with the most warlike and best appointed of armies; the Swiss are afoot and ill armed, and I am doubtful of their gaining the day."
I said I was afraid not, for I knew the school was in rather low water, and that Miss McDonald, so far from being able to keep me for nothing, had dismissed the junior governess, and that I was to fill the vacant post. "'Nevare mind, he said, 'we vill find ze way. I, Giorgi Vanucci, to you make ze assurance. "Then he took down my name and address very carefully in a note-book and sent me away.
They sent a communication to General Antonio Di Giorgi in command of that corps; mailed a copy of this letter and one written Professor Black to the American Ambassador at Rome; and, so their position might be understood, addressed a communication to the paper Il Resto Del Carlino, published at Bologna, which was commented upon by that paper as follows: "Il signor John Smith direttore regionale della Y. M. C. A. ci scrive da Carpi che, pur avendo le maggior simpatie per l'Italia e per il suo glorioso esercito, non puo associarsi alle critiche fatte da alcuni membri della Y. M. C. A. di Bologna contro l'opera di Wilson.
Same days later, Maria Giorgi, ambassador extraordinary of Venice, made his arrival. Then the pope went on to bestow the twelve cardinals' hats that had been sold.
Smith asked General Di Giorgi: "What would be the punishment of a soldier who criticized his king as John Calhoun had President Wilson." "Mr. Smith, you must excuse me from answering; I am not a politician, but a soldier." A major who was present said: "We would turn his face to the wall and shoot him in the back."
Same days later, Maria Giorgi, ambassador extraordinary of Venice, made his arrival. Then the pope went on to bestow the twelve cardinals' hats that had been sold.
GIORGI RIGHETTI. BERTAO Mlle. ROSSI. FIGARO Sig. LUIGI ZAMBONI. COUNT ALMAVIVA Sig. GARCIA. BARTOLO Sig. BOTTICELLI. BASILIO Sig. The story of the writing of "The Barber of Seville" is of more than ordinary interest. Rossini had engaged to write two operas for the Roman Carnival of 1816.
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