Re: [CR]Pic of the Day - How Rude!

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Subject: Re: [CR]Pic of the Day - How Rude!
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:10:25 -0400
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From: "Silver, Mordecai" <MSilver@iso.com>
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Richard Cielec wrote:

"Courage, mon vieux !

"Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figaro (first and second of the Beaumarchais trilogy) were written in Italian. So, I see precedent for Italian flavour on Bastille Day."

That's news to me. I always thought he wrote his plays in French, not Italian. The Mozart and Rossini operas had Italian libretti. Neither did Sardou write Tosca in Italian.

Gimondi is on a Bianchi in the photo (taken in 1968 according to the caption, when he was riding for Salvarani), but in 1969 he was riding a Chiorda. He later rode for the Bianchi team from 1973 onwards.

Mordecai Silver
NYC