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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:03:00 -0600
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From: Peter Green <peter-green-1@uiowa.edu>
Subject: Re: Divas

>On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Keely Lake wrote:
>
>> Is anyone able to make more sense of this than I?  My Italian is not
>> beyond stumbling, so I am wondering if there is indeed something more
>> than a confused journalist at heart here:
>>
>> Verena Dobnik in the Denver Post, Sunday Feb. 27th, in an article about
>> Jessye Norman:
>> "To fans, however, she is a diva in the true sense of the word's Italian
>> meaning, which describes an ancient goddess praising Achilles in Homer's
>>'Iliad'."
>
>Must be Black Athena.
>
>EJTh

The basic meaning of 'diva' in Italian is simply 'goddess'. The rest here
is journalistic fluff.

PMG


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