Mascagni claimed that he had been mulling over the Nero theme for 40 years, that his enthusiasm had lately been rekindled by ”Fascist exaltation.” Mascagni’s enthusiasm extended even to his ...

An Exaltation of Larks or, The Venereal Game, by James Lipton. N.Y.: Grossman Publishers. Illustrated. 118 pp. So Lipton went back to fifteenth century manuscripts and dug up terms for collections ...