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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12844

    Originally posted by Anna View Post
    Baldassare Galuppi ?????
    !!
    go on, Anna - you know you've got it - give us the full Anna's Law!!

    And we then look forward to an Anna H

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    • Northender

      ...and Robert Browing discussed a Griselda in correspondence with Julia Wedgwood.

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      • Northender

        Might the Katharine have been from Aragon by any chance?

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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8791

          I think Anna may have it with Galuppi - Browning wrote a poem A Toccata by G...............

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12844

            Originally posted by antongould View Post
            I think Anna may have it with Galuppi - Browning wrote a poem A Toccata by G...............
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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26540

              Originally posted by Northender View Post
              I think the answer might be Griselda. Goldoni wrote a libretto to an opera of that name.


              Fraid not!
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26540

                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                Are we expected to get a gallopi on here? Or evrn a Baldassare Galuppi ?????
                Cali has gone walkabout in The Eternal City ....... Typical!
                He's probably in some poncey restaurant !!



                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                go on, Anna - you know you've got it - give us the full Anna's Law!!

                And we then look forward to an Anna H
                Anna - you are indeed correct! Please do prepare a dish of coleslaw - then Northo can stop digging (nothing to do with Julia Wedgwood or Katharine of Aragon....
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • Northender

                  I stopped digging before the hole got that deep!
                  Let's hope that Anna's despair at what happened to her beloved Scarlets last night might have been lessened if, as seems highly likely, she's got the right 'G'. I mean, what's a home defeat to deadly RU rivals?

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                  • Northender

                    While Caliban has clearly returned from the Roman walkabout to which Anna referred, the lady herself seems to have copied the title character of Hitchcock's 1938 film.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26540

                      Originally posted by Northender View Post
                      While Caliban has clearly returned from the Roman walkabout to which Anna referred, the lady herself seems to have copied the title character of Hitchcock's 1938 film.
                      Nope! Still here till the end of the week!
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      • amateur51

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        Nope! Still here till the end of the week!
                        Yay! I hope it's going really well Caliban - any pix of pasta, antipasti, primo piatti, gelati etc would be most gratefully received

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                        • Northender

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Nope! Still here till the end of the week!
                          Sorry, didn't make myself clear - I took Anna's comment to mean that you'd decided to fare due passi and would be temporarily away from your communications base! The weather that's forecast for us back here over the next few days is unlikely to hasten your return!

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26540

                            Originally posted by Northender View Post
                            Sorry, didn't make myself clear - I took Anna's comment to mean that you'd decided to fare due passi and would be temporarily away from your communications base! The weather that's forecast for us back here over the next few days is unlikely to hasten your return!
                            Ah ha! Yes - read in haste, fully understood at leisure. I see it's ****ing it down back home - here, v pleasant, mild, sunny with the odd cloud providing relief. Pretty ideal.

                            Ammy - haven't taken any pics yet.... Only have a poor camera phone with me in fact. Will see what I can do...
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • Anna

                              OMG, OMG, have you all been waiting for me? Well, I went out last night and have just returned home, in partial drowned rat state due to inclement weather. I merely stayed with friends (before any comments about anything) and have merely been lazing around with them, watching the Great British Bake Off, nibbling nibbles, and then Gordon Ramsay's new series compilation on Channel 4/7. Really good, my view of him has changed diametrically. The man can cook. Ho Hum. I think Caliban is failing in his duty to provide us with menus, wines and descriptions of his hedonistic life in The Eternal City...

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26540

                                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                                I think Caliban is failing in his duty to provide us with menus, wines and descriptions of his hedonistic life in The Eternal City...
                                Whilst I attempt to remedy my undoubted failings, might you rustle up a Ramsay-inspired coleslaw, followed by a showstopping, freshly-baked H ?
                                "...the isle is full of noises,
                                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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