Luzio

Mantova e Urbino: Isabella d'Este ed Elisabetta Gonzaga nelle relazioni famigliari e nelle vicende politiche; narrazione storica documentata di Alessandro Luzio e Rodolfo Renier.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Director Nicholas Muni updated the opera to the 1950s, making the raucous Carnival into a sex-drenched, black-and-white sock hop, complete with Luzio (Ryan MacPherson) as a slouchy James Dean type with a switchblade.

Shakespeare Drab and Dark Heidi Waleson 2008

Luzio, keeper of the Gonzaga archives at Mantua, and to his able colleague, Signor Renier, for the assistance which they have lent to my researches, as well as for the help afforded by their own publications, in which many of Isabella and Beatrice d'Este's most interesting letters have already been given to the world.

Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887

[28] Pastor's "History of the Popes," vol.v. p. 383, etc. [29] Luzio-Renier, _op.cit. _, p. 350, etc.

Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887

As Signor Luzio has already remarked, [35] it is impossible to read these words without thinking that Leonardo must have been the artist employed by Lodovico on this occasion to take a sketch of his infant son.

Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887

[1] Luzio-Renier in Archivio Storico Lombardo, xvii.

Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887

At nightfall, as things are beginning to grow wild and merry, Luzio appears, and sings an extravagant carnival song, with the refrain:

My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848

Her violent outburst imprudently reveals her to Luzio in a seductive aspect; smitten with sudden love, he urges her to quit the convent for ever and to accept his hand.

My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848

Luzio, who also returns, counsels the people with stinging bitterness to pay no heed to the woman's fury; he points out that she is only tricking them, as she has already tricked him -- for he still believes in her shameless infidelity.

My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848

Freimuller, the tenor, whose memory was most defective, sought to patch up the lively and emotional character of his badly learned rule of the madcap Luzio by means of routine work learned in Fra Diavolo and Zampa, and especially by the aid of an enormously thick, brightly coloured and fluttering plume of feathers.

My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848