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Title: The desk book of facts for physicians and pharmacistis
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walsh, Ralph, 1841- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Washington, D.C.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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alist he has exercised, for half a century, thegreatest influence on Italian sculpture. Romanticism has found its warmest adherents in thesculptors Lorenzo Bartolini and Marochetti, and inthe painter Hayez, while the artist Morelli, who dieda year or two ago in Naples, was a more decided ro-manticist than any of them. The brothers Domenicoand Girolamo Induno were realists in the highest sense,making genre pictures their specialty. In music Italy no doubt has led the world, Rossini,Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi being four names, anyone of which would have brought glory to a nation. Rossini effected a revolution in music like that ofGoldoni in the drama, and one can only appreciate whatforce, what variety of expression and what fullnessand richness of form he added to it by comparing himwith his predecessors. His fame can be judged bythese lines from the pen of an illustrious French critic: After the death of Napoleon there was another manwho was the subject of conversation each day from
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DonisettLVerdL Musicians.Rossini. BcUiuLMascagnL Military Expansion and Literature 281 Moscow to Naples, from London to Vienna, fromParis to Calcutta. This was Rossini, and his fameknew no boundaries except those of the civilizedworld. Bellini was called the Petrarch of music, and he hadindeed the -energy and sweetness of the latter. Heunderstood how to bring out the clangor of battle andto express the sigh of a breaking heart; and he foundnew riches in the human voice with which to expressthe most varied and subtle feelings. A most powerful genius for versatility and profoundsentiment was Donizetti. He was born to feel and toexpress in music the emotions of his soul. At first heimitated Rossini, then Bellini, but finally he found astrain of his own and stamped it ineffaceably with hisindividuality. The pride of Italy for more than half a century wasin the fame of Verdi. When this veteran composerfirst came before the public all felt that he was likeone of those poets of antiquity who

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