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Spotorno, under sanction of Ignazio de Giovanni, a learned canon, treats this assertion as a bravado, to cover his defeat, being contradicted by his evident poverty.
Then a smile of great beauty passed over his face, and he addressed the stranger. "I thank you," said he. "You will never know what you have done for me." "It is nothing," answered the stranger, awkwardly. "He told me you set great store on a new organ." Padre Ignazio turned away from the ship and rode back through the gorge.
I should go back and see the original ones and then I'd hasten up to Paris." And, with a volume of Meyerbeer open in his hand, Gaston hummed: "'Robert, Robert, toi que j'aime. Why, padre, I think that your library contains none of the masses and all of the operas in the world!" "I will make you a little confession," said Padre Ignazio, "and then you shall give me a little absolution."
Ignazio, or Olivazo, near a minor altar at one side, we find a painting representing the Virgin and the infant Jesus. The sacristan persisted that this was a work of Raphael's. The colouring appeared to me not quite to resemble that of the great master, but I understand too little of these things to be able to judge on such a subject. At any rate it is a fine piece.
The rare and costly marbles with which the Church of Il Gesu is profusely adorned were mostly taken from the ruins of the Baths of Titus by Cardinal Farnese in 1568. From the same source came also the magnificent sarcophagus, sheathed with lapis lazula, under the altar of St. Ignazio, which holds the body of St. Luigi Gonzaga.
Father Ignazio is a man of wide learning and inflexible doctrine, and in several of our monasteries, notably that of the Barnabites, you will find examples of sanctity and wisdom such as a young man may well devoutly consider. Our convents also are distinguished for the severity of their rule and the spiritual privileges accorded them.
And then Padre Ignazio repeated Auber's remark in French: "'Est-ce le bon Dieu, on est-ce bien le diable, qui me fait tonjours aimer les coquins? I don't know! I don't know! I wonder if Auber has composed anything lately? I wonder who is singing Zerlina now?" He cast a farewell look at the ocean, and took his steps between the monastic herbs and the oleanders to the sacristy.
The new opera, however, had duly arrived. And as he turned its pages Padre Ignazio was quick to seize at once upon the music that could be taken into his church. Some of it was ready fitted. By that afternoon Felipe and his choir could have rendered "Ah! se l'error t' ingombra" without slip or falter. Those were strange rehearsals of "Il Trovatore" upon this California shore.
An eminent Italian historian writes vividly and perceptively on Italian Fascism. Schneider, Herbert W. Making the Fascist State, N.Y., 1928. An early, but well considered, account of the rise of Italian fascism. Silone, Ignazio Fontamara, Verona, 1951. The best novel on Italian fascism. Spender, Stephen European Witness, N.Y., 1946. Trevor-Roper, H.R. The Last Days of Hitler, N.Y., 1946.
He mentioned to Fulvia the rumours of popular disaffection; but she swept them aside with a smile. "The people mistrust you," she said. "And what does that mean? That you have given your enemies time to work on their credulity. The longer you delay the more opposition you will encounter. Father Ignazio would rather destroy the state than let it be saved by any hand but his." Odo reflected.
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