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Attilio 'Jack'(Giacomo) Morpurgo, M.DPOEM BY HIS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, HELGA:My father was a perennial child---always laughing---joking---indulging in flights of fantasy. I remember him lighting a pipe---going on a house call with his medical bag---a harmonica in his pocket---his rambunctious terrier on a leash. He never went anywhere without his dog---and in Italy you could take your pet anywhere---even to the movies. He played the piano badly---with passion and persistence...wrapped himself in a sheet and danced a furious improvisation to Stravinsky's "Rites of Spring"...becoming an undulating, sweeping, whirling phantom interpreting Ravel's "Bolero"...a whirling...expanding...exploding phantom in a sweeping, white sheet. HIS ELDEST CHILD, ANNASELMA, has written about him in many books and has also memorialized him on this web page. Shop for Attilio's paintings and all other Morpurgo Art at Fine Art America: Born Alexandria, Egypt, 1903 (Parents: Baron Anselmo Morpurgo (b. Cairo, Egypt) and Baroness Ida Sierra Morpurgo (b. Staten Island, U.S.A.)   Attilio and Vilhelma (Vilna Jorgen) with nine-month-old Annaselma (Artemis Smith), 1934   "The Mahattan Project" c. 1942: Attilio, whose childhood friend, Enrico Fermi, was brought by him to meet the staff at Welfare Island Hospital, recruited many of the staff to accompany him in the Manhattan Project. Seen here are Dr. Henry Kissinger, next to Chief of Staff Herbert Schueller (early sponsor of The Savant Garde Institute), Michael Dacso, later Academic Dean of Albert Einstein Medical College and Attilio's roommate. Also depicted are Dr. Baruch (father of Bernard H. Baruch)and Drs. DiCori, Kwashewska, Holbrook, among others also famous.  "The Family Quartet" c.1949 Attilio, Vilhelma, Annaselma, Helga, in Elmhurst, Queens, New York   The Beach at Ostia, Italy, 1937. Vilna, Attilio, Helga and a cousin in foreground, Annaselma, 3, behind Vilna. Biographies of Attilio and Family have been written by Annaselma, now known as Prof. Annselm L.N.V. Morpurgo and her pen name of 'ArtemisSmith', recipient of the 2018 Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Award. (All her books are presently available at Amazon.com.)  |
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