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The article discusses the pellagra epidemic among Italian peasants from the mid-19th century to the onset of World War I and its relationship to the introduction of maize from Central America to Italy. According to the article, maize was the primary crop of united Italy by 1870. It discusses maize polenta as a staple in Italy, and the correlation between the consumption of maize and the development of pellagra. The article also discusses the debate between physicians Clodomiro Bonfigli and Cesare Lombroso concerning pellagra patients in insane asylums.

The article discusses the fascination with volcanoes of European artists and scientists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The studies of Mount Vesuvius in Naples (Italy) undertaken by the British diplomat Sir William Hamilton are discussed, as are other prominent figures who wrote about and painted the volcano, including the French artist Pierre-Jacques Volaire, English artist Joseph Wright, and English scientist Michael Faraday. Other famed eruptions discussed from this period include the volcanic fissure Laki in Iceland (1783) and Mount Tambora in Indonesia (1816).

The author presents a profile of Italian author Natalia Ginzburg. She mentions the rediscovery of the works of Ginzburg, her life and family and their anti-fascist activities before and during World War II, and what inspired her to write.

The article discusses the work of the painter Tintoretto, who lived in Venice, Italy, during the 16th century. Topics discussed include an exhibition of his work at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., how he was the son of a man who dyed silk for a living and his painting "Paradise," whose predatory sketch was included in the Washington exhibition.

The article profiles Pope Pius XII, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ. He was born Eugenio Pacelli and the first Roman to wear the triple crown in two centuries. He set up a radio station and a power house in the Vatican in Rome, Italy, allowed mass to be performed in the afternoon to give opportunity for workers to attend and led a spiritual fight against Communism. He is known as the Pope of the people because he has met more people than any other Pope in the history.

The article discusses William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, known as Lord William Bentinck, focusing on his time as British Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean and British Minister to the Court of Sicily, Italy. It comments on Sicilian separatism, Italian nationalism, and Bentinck's efforts to encourage Italian resistance to France from 1811 to 1814. The author also reflects on Sicily's adoption of a constitution on the British model, Bentinck's attitude to the Papacy, and his relations with Sicilian rulers King Ferdinand IV of Naples and III of Sicily and Queen Maria Carolina.

The article focuses on Etro, a family-run company known for its opulent paisleys and haute-hippie garb, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It states that the comany was founded by Gerolamo "Gimmo" Etro and now run primarily by his four children, including Jacopo, and Kean, and mentions that Ippolito helped run Etro's American business in New York starting in 1989, before moving back to Milan in 1991. It notes that the company will debut furniture collection in Milan, Italy.

The article offers the author's insights regrading the influence of multicultural resources such as Sephardic and Ashkenazic, to the development of cultural identity of Italian Jewish. The author says that cultural pattern is associated with musical traditions in Italian community. It states that differences in liturgical and para-lithurgical origins of the Jewish affects musical evolution. It adds that intermarrriage and shared culture has an implication to musical diversity in Italy.

The article provides information on the political history of Italy. On October 29, 1922 Benito Mussolini was appointed as the 30th Prime Minister of the liberal democratic Italian State. For most historians, the crucial factors behind Mussolini's rise to power may be found in the peculiar circumstances of postwar Italy's chaotic socio-political atmosphere. On October 16, 1922, six of the Fascist Ras leadership convinced Mussolini that, in the tradition of Garibaldian revolutionaries, the time was right to take power.

The article focuses on the book "Life on the Lagoons," by Horatio F. Brown. In this book, Brown sketches the Venetian life. He writes as one who, from long intimacy, has come to know the life of the people to-day, just as, by profound and sympathetic study, he has come to know the history of Venice. Brown is as free from illusions regarding the Byromo or stage-villain Venetians of the past as he is from the Ruskinian contempt for modern Venetians. He brings forward many quaint legends and many well-told accounts of contemporary customs, he is alive to the unique position of Venice in art and in history.

This article presents information about two books. The book "The Remaking of Italy" has as many parts as it has authors. It opens with a bird's-eye view of Italian history, certainly useful for the layman and perhaps of some use even to the cognoscenti. The next two chapters picture Italy's relations with Germany and with England, playing an unhappy couple against a happy one. It also presents a brief history of Fascism. Apart from a few inaccuracies and some sensationalism, it is excellent reporting. The pompously vulpine character of the regime is brought into proper focus.

The article discusses the social, cultural and political history of the opera and determines whether the Court or the Public is responsible for the early growth of the opera. "Orfeo," which epitomizes court opera, was a through-composed music-drama with dance sequences and was written to be fully staged. Venice, Italy, was a city of theaters and shows were aimed to attract to a wide pubic in the 1590s. In the mid-17th century, both court and public opera were taking root beyond Italy.

Presents historical information. Prehistoric village uncovered near Pompeii, Italy; Painting considered as the only portrait of Paul Gauguin; Amount of money that the Norman Abbey of Selby, needed to restore its crumbling structure.

It was impressive to hear again the rebuke of Consul Lucius Aemilius to the amateur strategists of his time. There are, however, other stories. One story refers to events of 773 A.D. It is reported by medieval historians such as Anastasius, Frodoard, Agnellus Ravennatis, and the Chronicler of Moissiac. According to this story, Charlemagne, having dismissed all hope of forcing the Chiuse and not suspecting that there might be another way for invading Italy, had made up his mind to return the next day to France, when a deacon, called Martin, arrived in the camp of the Franks. This man taught Charlemagne a secret mountain pass to outflank the fortresses and to descend into Italy.

Presents several radio programs that will broadcast henceforth; Discussion by Senator Henry P. Fletcher on issues faced by the delegates at the forthcoming Republican convention; Speech on Constitution by U.S. historian Charles A. Beard; Speech by the fascist Prime Minister of Italy, Benito Mussolini;

The article examines various issues surrounding a pair of bronze sculptures, known as the Riace Bronzes, that date back to the 5th century BC. Topics discussed include how they were discovered in the sea near Calabria, Italy, how they have been held in a regional government office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, and efforts being made to put them on display.

The article provides a historical account of modern Italy. It mentions the occurrence of a disastrous earthquake on February 5, 1783 in the province of Calabria, Italy where the late John William Smith, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law was born. It also cites a period of revolution when peasants became princes and simple individuals reached the highest positions in the society.