Word: doges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Doge's court turned the tables on Shylock he was heavily fined, forced to will the rest of his fortune to his run away daughter Jessica and her goy hus band, made to promise he would be baptized. But he knew life in Venice would be insufferable, and after his enforced baptism escaped by ship to friends in Constantinople. After an abortive Zionistic attempt to found a Jewish colony at Tiberias he sailed with a Turkish expedition against Venice-owned Cyprus, and there had a vicarious revenge on the city that had ruined him. There...
...Friedsam, Charles M. Schwab, Jules Semon Bache, et al. Of another event-of-the-week Director Valentiner was prouder still. He was able to announce that, thanks to his own astute connoisseurship, his Detroit Institute of Art had acquired a genuine Titian, the golden, mellow portrait of a Venetian Doge. For this masterpiece, which he valued at $150,000, Director Valentiner had paid only $400, at an auction of part of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum's great Havemeyer Collection (TIME, March 24). It had been labeled "School of Titian," but Director Valentiner, observing the sensitively rendered fingers...