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and ideal friendship could never again be evoked.

  Of his published works I know only two: a

novel entitled "Luce Fredda" and a later book ^called entitled,"Grandezza e Servitir del cinema."

  Italy in those times was full of music.  Operatic

crossed out: solos could be heard arias floated up from streets and walled lanes, fields and shops, along with Neapolitan songs, and a musical education as it was offered at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia was thorough and comprehensive. Children entered at six years of age and spent the first two years on solfeggio and the fundamentals of music so that ^by the time when they were allowed to take up their intended instruments they were already accustomed to the language of music and ^were free to develop the ^technical technique of the instrument. Here also a great seriousness obtained and no compositions were permitted other than exercises, until each student had found his own characteristic art and was equipped with technical means far beyond the demands of the