Word: alberoni
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...Italy another Gone With the Wind clone has surfaced under the title L'Orto del Paradiso (The Garden of Paradise). When the heroine of Rosa Giannetta Alberoni's novel kisses her amante ("Arianna seemed to hear a roaring, as if she had held seashells against her ears"), the moment echoes the heart-thudding scene between Scarlett O'Hara and Ashley Wilkes ("There ) was a low curious roaring sound in her ears as of seashells being held against them"). Yet despite a plethora of parallel passages, Alberoni denies she has ever read Mitchell's novel. By contrast, Deforges admits that...
...serious are beginning to show up in Italy. There a class of "intellectual unemployed" is growing -a group of university-trained youths determined not to work until positions they deem worthy for themselves open up. It is a new phenomenon. It did not exist, says Catania University Sociologist Francesco Alberoni, "when people did not have such expectations and worried about earning enough to eat with whatever job they could...
England, worried about the threat of Spanish sea power, swooped down one summer morning and destroyed half the Spanish fleet. To his consternation, Alberoni found himself faced by half the armies of Europe. "When shall I be able to get out of this maze?" he cried...
...suspended while the new costume was passed through the hostile lines to her under a flag of truce), charged at the head of the troops with her quixotic husband. Patrols-under strict orders to avoid "all unnecessary embarrassments"-had a hard time to keep from capturing the royal pair. Alberoni had an equally hard time running the battles and cooking the Queen's meals. "This sort of existence can't go on!" he groaned. When the Quadruple Alliance demanded that Alberoni be ousted as one peace condition, Philip and Elisabeth, bored with war, threw their faithful servant...
...long robes ... of fornication with his mustachioed old housekeeper." He disappeared for a year, reappeared briefly in Rome on a prancing white stallion to cast his vote in the election of Pope Innocent XIII. By then he was almost forgotten by the warring powers. At the age of 88, Alberoni died, leaving behind him a seminary for the education of indigent student priests, a plan for the federation of Europe...