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Joan Acocella recounts her ex-husband’s attempts to Italianize their Christmas.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2019
An American Army Air Forces lieutenant gallantly saves the day, an opportunity for Tutino to Italianize "The Star Spangled Banner" just as Puccini had in "Madama Butterfly."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2015
Under the new law, Gina Lollobrigida can Italianize her 1968 Austrian divorce from Milko Skofic, and Maria Callas can shed Giovanni Battista Meneghini, from whom she has been separated for eleven years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says a Vatican spokesman: "They must de- Italianize their terms to grow in the world."
From Time Magazine Archive
A Celt in essence, thoroughly Italianate himself, and with a deep love for the picturesque, which often makes men insensible to dirt and discomfort, he expected to Italianize Herminia too rapidly.
From The Woman Who Did by Grant Allen
The inside track to a job in the Metropolitan Opera Company used to turn on an Italianized name and recognized vocal experience, usually in Milan.
From Time Magazine Archive
To prevent his English from becoming too Italianized, he makes yearly trips to New York City, where he consults with his most "nurturing" publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich's Helen Wolff.
From Time Magazine Archive
He Italianized the middle name in college--"I hated Francis," he says--but he's only half Italian.
From Time Magazine Archive
This cantabile is often of exquisite beauty, and gives Italian and Italianized singers a chance to show off the mellow qualities of their voices to the best advantage.
From Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry Theophilus Finck
Thus von Thurn assisted the Italianized party; they would, at any rate, unlike the other Serbo-Croats of Dalmatia, not strive for union with anybody else.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Henry Baerlein
Not only was the typical Frenchman's mood even sourer than usual, but there were numerous signs that French political life, and daily life for that matter, was Italianizing at the edges.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the most ridiculous instances of Italianizing was in the case of Mr. John Clarke, of Brooklyn, who became Signor Giovanni Chiari di Broccolini.
From Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry C. Lahee
These nephews drop their original name and take their mother's, Italianizing its spelling to Borgia.
From Cæsar or Nothing by Louis How
Of late years several singers of English and American origin have achieved distinction without the necessity of Italianizing their name,—Bispham, for instance, being a striking example.
From Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry C. Lahee
The present custom of Italianizing English names as the only process by which they can be made fit for presentation to the public is much more modern than is generally known.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by James H. Mapleson
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