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  • Of the many high points the "fazzoletto" handkerchief scene, in which the Moor's jealousy spills into madness, is especially forceful.

    Verdi: Otello – Simon O'Neill, Gerald Finley, Anne Schwanewilms, LSO/ Davis – review Fiona Maddocks 2010

  • Pomona, with enormous earrings and splendid _fazzoletto_ of crimson and orange dyes, pounced down upon her for some supposed infraction of good manners -- _creanza_, as they vividly express it here.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Little Teresa too was happy, except when her mother, a severe Pomona, with enormous earrings and splendid _fazzoletto_ of crimson and orange dyes, pounced down upon her for some supposed infraction of good manners -- _creanza_, as they vividly express it here.

    New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Pomona, with enormous earrings and splendid _fazzoletto_ of crimson and orange dyes, pounced down upon her for some supposed infraction of good manners -- _creanza_, as they vividly express it here.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

  • The collection includes a few Fratelli Toso 6-inch cabinet vases, which are popular with collectors at the moment, and more-modern interpretations such as the 6-inch Fontana Arte green glass vase that represents the original concept for fazzoletto vases.

    Antique News News! 2009

  • Here and there some gondolier from the islands, sheepishly conscious of the brilliant _fazzoletto_, or the string of beads he had just bought in the tempting booths of the old, wooden Rialto, hung on the outskirts of the crowd before Sér Gobbo, to catch from the gossip of the more lettered ones about him the details of the morrow's _festa_ which he might not read for himself; for the knowledge would make him the oracle of his little circle in Burano -- or at least with Giovanna, when he should bestow his silken trifle for the morrow's splendor.

    The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull

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