Word: duked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...palaces and villas and town houses (including his own house in Via Poma), for heraldic emblems, tapestries, urns, salvers, jewelry and every other class of luxury object a Renaissance patron might feel the itch to have. Indeed, Giulio's first job in Mantua was a tomb for the Duke's favorite dog, a long-legged bitch that had expired while giving birth to a litter of puppies...
There he had no rivals and no clergy breathing censoriously down the back of his neck. Federico II Gonzaga's court was a secular one; not even his tamest eulogists could have called the Duke pious. He was, however, brave, generous, greedy, obsessed with his own virtu (which meant prowess, not virtue) and determined to go down in history for his martial skills, his classical learning and his devotion to all vertical and horizontal forms of the chase. In Giulio, this son of Isabella d'Este found a court artist whose libidinousness and intelligence fit his own. Both men moved...
Wooster's rendition of "Sonny Boy," accompanied with tap dancing, was done with enough finesse to warrant a snicker, but by the time he started into "Every Cloud Has a Silver lining," the snicker had faded to a grunt. Duke builds up an expectation for greatness that is just not realized. The rest of the play moves at such a schizophrenic pace that this sluggish type of ending leaves a bad taste in the mouth...
...this ending is only a minor flaw in an otherwise perfectly polished piece of work. Duke's energy in switching from role to role and from adventure to adventure remains high in spite of his numerous costume changes. And the foibles of these everyday-type characters keeps the laughter flowing steadily...