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Capuana

British  
/ kaˈpwaːna /

noun

  1. Luigi. 1839–1915, Italian realist novelist, dramatist, and critic. His works include the novel Giacinta (1879) and the play Malia (1895)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Listen to any operatic recording or performance conducted by, for example, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli or Dmitri Mitropoulos, Karl Bohm or Franco Capuana.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2017

Silvio Capuana could never forget the poverty of his youth, or the pain and contempt it had brought him in the Apennine village of Contrada, where he was born 60 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon all of Contrada was flocking to the Capuana estate to look at the new portrait and laugh at its subject.

From Time Magazine Archive

He went straight through the town to the Porta Capuana.

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 by Dahn, Felix

The second school of this kind organized was that of San Onofrio a Capuana, in 1576.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)

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