Daily Archive: February 24, 2011

Feb 24

February 24: George Moore

George Moore

Although he was agnostic, the Catholic-born Moore he preferred to be regarded as a Protestant – even though Protestants, too, found his ideas about Jesus troublesome.

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Feb 24

February 24: Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito

Boito’s only completed opera, “Mefistofele,” based on Goethe’s “Faust,” infuriated the Italian clergy by his frivolous treatment of religion.

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