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Pasta in 1821 by Gioacchino Giuseppe Serangeli. Giuditta Pasta's voice was described by a New Monthly Magazine reviewer in 1824 as follows: It is a mezzo-soprano, somewhat similar to that of Madame Vestris, but clearer, more powerful, and of greater compass. She commands two octaves, but two or three of the highest notes of this range are ...
Porta Pinciana is a gate of the Aurelian Walls in Rome. [1]The name derives from the gens Pincia, who owned the eponymous hill (Pincian Hill).In ancient times it was also called Porta Turata ("Plugged Gate", for it was partially closed) and Porta Salaria vetus, as the oldest Via Salaria passed under it (the Via Salaria nova passed under the Porta Salaria).