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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
    The horse is Italian.
    D'you know that Cavelli wrote pieces based on every Greek myth you can think of.







    Except Oedipus.
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12938

      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      Cavelli :
      why 'Cavelli'?

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
        why 'Cavelli'?
        Oh, what an ass! (Me, that is!)

        CAVALLI. (The Welsh cheese.)
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • vinteuil
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 12938

          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post

          CAVALLI
          ... again, but why Cavalli??

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
            ... again, but why Cavalli??
            Well, it's horses for courses, innit? Is there a Cavello?

            EDIT: Oh for crying out loud! CAVALLO!
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • vinteuil
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 12938

              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              CAVALLO!
              .... well, you're HALF way there

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                .... well, you're HALF way there
                Leon ...

                And Sergio Leone directed the Clint Eastwood "Man with no name" Trilogy.

                ?
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12938

                  Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                  Leon ...

                  And Sergio Leone directed the Clint Eastwood "Man with no name" Trilogy.

                  ?
                  .... ah, now we're getting somewhere!

                  The Sergio Leone reference is interesting, but curiously it was not what I had in mind.

                  But Leoncavallo is right (for one of the clues) ( and perhaps someone could provide the link to Oedipus?) - and keep thinking of lions...

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                  • subcontrabass
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 2780

                    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                    ... to be accurate, he was born in what is now Belgium...
                    Are we looking at Richard Coeur-de-lion by André Grétry?

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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                      But Leoncavallo is right (for one of the clues) ( and perhaps someone could provide the link to Oedipus?) - and keep thinking of lions...
                      Ruggero Leoncavallo wrote the opera Edipo Re (King Oedipus)
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12938

                        Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                        Are we looking at Richard Coeur-de-lion by André Grétry?
                        we are indeed

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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12938

                          Originally posted by Flay View Post
                          Ruggero Leoncavallo wrote the opera Edipo Re (King Oedipus)
                          indeed he did - indeed, it was his last (unfinisht) work - hence "ended" with a horse (Leon-cavallo) and "ended" with Oedipus...

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                          • vinteuil
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12938

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post

                            Starting with the man with no name's big book, the Belgian gets to the heart of it, but we end up with a horse and Œdipus...

                            ?
                            just a reminder of the original clues...

                            The big book was in Latin , and was written by our L

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                            • subcontrabass
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 2780

                              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                              just a reminder of the original clues...

                              The big book was in Latin , and was written by our L
                              Léonin - Magnus Liber - authorship attested by Anonymous IV.

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                              • Flay
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 5795



                                A fine muzzy, Mr Leoncavallo
                                Last edited by Flay; 23-03-12, 07:19. Reason: Eyesight again <doh>
                                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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