Word: albaness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...century and a half, the story was one of the tidbits in Europe's chronique scandaleuse. Spain's great painter Francisco José Goya y Lucientes, also known as "the Turbulent," took a more than artistic interest in the beautiful Maria Teresa, Duchess of Alba (so gossip whispered in history's ear), and amused himself by painting her in the nude. A well-wisher tipped off her husband, the 13th Duke of Alba, who flew into a boiling Spanish rage. Gallant Goya had to think fast...
Inside Spain, ancient monarchist families painfully felt a new, hostile attitude. It was rumored that Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart Falco, Duke of Alba (Britain's Duke of Berwick), the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, the Duke of Medinaceli and others were fined a half million pesetas for signing a royalist manifesto. It was fact that Alba and five more "ceased" to be members of the Cortes, that royalist officials were fired, that royalist university professors were assaulted by Falangist students...
Miss Fiorenza Quartararo, a San Franciscan of Italian parentage, had made only two big-league appearances before: once when she filled in for Helen Traubel on a day's notice at the Hollywood Bowl, once on Bing Crosby's radio program. She called herself Florence Alba then. When she won the $1,000 Caruso Award last fall and was hired by the Met, the Met persuaded her to go back to her original name. She will make her formal Metropolitan debut next month-as Micaela...
Bitten Fruit. Goya found extramural solace with vivacious María Teresa, Duchess of Alba, whose reputation at court was as scandalous as his own. Warned a well-meaning friend: "This particular fruit already has lots of bites in it." But Goya paid no heed. When he saw Teresa, "a tingle of delicious pain hovered at the edge of [his] eyelids." Most of Author White's lively novel is the story of this 20-year attachment...
...Madrid, the present Duke of Alba is awaiting the result of his order to exhume the 13th Duchess of Alba in order to solve two 143-year-old mysteries: 1) did she die of poison? 2) was she the model for Goya's famed nude...