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The real Salieri
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Trivia question: what opera inaugurated the Teatro alla Scala? Answer: Europa Riconosciuta, libretto by Mattia Verazi, music by Antonio Salieri. Although La Scala's traditional season opening has always been December 7 (the feast day of Sant' Ambrogio, patron saint of Milan), the inauguration took place during summer -- August 3, 1778. The new theater replaced one lost to fire, an all too common fate of theaters in those pre-electric days. Europa Riconosciuta today lies in the proverbial dustbin of history, but Salieri himself, in his modest way, has turned out to be a phoenix. One of his ...
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The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...paradoxes of her being. Margaret's sensibilities were...checkered history of the Beaufort family, by her childhood...Through these trials, Margaret developed a mature understanding...status and authority. Margaret Beaufort was the great granddaughter...
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The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort Countess of Richmond and Derby.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; The Beaufort family has been fortunate in its biographers...first G.L. Harriss's Cardinal Beaufort (reviewed ante XXVI, 1991) and now...great-niece, the work under review. Margaret Beaufort is more lightly treated by the joint...
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Report from Europe.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...helmet, shield, and sword; the crown of Margaret of York, duchess of Burgundy (Edward IV's sister); a silver-gilt beaker made for Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond and Derby, the mother of Henry VII; and two early fifteenth...
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Knights and Peasants: The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...needed to be told, and as such will deservedly form an essential addition to our reading on the subject. Michael K. Jones is the co-author of The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (CUP, 1992).
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