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| | ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE IN CAIRO CELEBRATES 100th ANNIVERSARY OF MARIO ROSSI, Friday, March 28, 1997 |
 | | A student of the Scuela di Belle Arte in Rome, Rossi came to Egypt in 1921 as an assistant decorator at the invitation of Ernesto Verucci Bey when the latter was till Chief Court Architect and responsible for many of the changes and additions to Abdine Palace. |
 | | Rossi experts go as far as claiming that the neighboring mansion, Villa Tewfik, home to Cairo's Music Institute (at the corner of Ismail Mohammed and Shagaret al-Dor Streets), is also the work of Rossi even though it was presented as that of Ernesto Verucci Bey, Rossi's sometime benefactor and employer. |
 | | The pinnacle of Rossi's career was the inauguration in 1944, of his greatest achievement, the Alexandria mosque of Sidi Morsi Abou al-Abbas, for which he was personally congratulated by a grateful King Farouk. |
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