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Friday, January 27, 2012

"Si ridesti il leone di San Marco": the Venetian imagination

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Verdi: miracle man of opera
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Thomas Russell Ybarra - 1955 - 312 pages - Snippet view

One grand chorus in "Ernani", starting with the words "Si ridesti il Leon di Castiglia " (Rise up, Lion of Castile) was made in Venetian imaginations to mean an apostrophe to the Lion of Saint Mark, symbol of the ancient power of the Queen of ...

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