Word: casanovas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to information obtained yesterday, a valuable and important painting by the well known artist Francois Casanova was discovered accidentally some weeks ago by P. H. Harris '28, Rogers and Sheldon Fellow for researches in Italy in Romance Languages...
...interest aroused by the find was due to the fact that the cracked and battered old picture, on being thoroughly renovated and cleaned, was found contrary to general tradition not to represent the Battle of Fribourg but some entirely different combat, which has yet to be identified. Casanova was a celebrated painter of battle scenes who lived in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The picture in question originally belonged to the Conde family, later passed into the hands of Cardinal Fesch, and finally was given to the Lyons Museum who in turn loaned it to the hospital where...
...Lancey for many years has devoted himself to researches on the great military painter and is at present preparing a book by which he hopes to place Casanova in his proper position among his contemporaries of the eighteenth century. Harris has recently been collaborating with him, and both were feted by the town of Lyons on the discovery. The two collectors have also been recommended to the French government for recognition...
Died. Arthur Schnitzler, 69, Viennese novelist, poet and dramatist (Casanova's Homecoming, Professor Bernhardi, Fraülein Else, Rhapsody, etc.); of a stroke, while re-writing a play; in Vienna. In a codicil to his will he directed that his funeral be "of the very last" (pauper's) class, that the money thus saved be distributed among hospitals, that a needle be thrust through his heart to remove any doubt of death...
...willingly admits that the efforts of Professors Harper and Legouis in exposing Wordsworth's relations with Annette make it necessary for a new "explanation." Keenly aware of the sensational tendencies of his own century, Professor Herford makes it quite clear, however, that this discovery does not make a Casanova-Byron of the respectable recluse of Rydal. He sums up the whole incident from the very solid point of view of common sense...