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...them—no one can say which for sure—may be the heir to the Kingdom of Barataria. The heir among them was transplanted to Venice at birth—but not before being engaged to the lovely Casilda (Cambridge Riley), the daughter of the Spanish Duke of Plazatoro (Jim Luiz). However, Casilda is now in love with Luiz (Dan A. Spitzer ’05), and the possibility of marrying otherwise fills her with as much consternation as it does any of the other four young lovers...
...incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet, the P'incess" ... Presents for their daughter are more of a problem to the Duke & Duchess of York than to the parents of most three-year-olds. For example, on their tour of Australia they were obliged to accept and bring home ... no less than three tons of toys and precisely 20 fine squawking parrots. The Duchess cannot appear at a bazaar, lay a cornerstone or address the Girl...
...graduate of Duke, Kumar is planning to take two years off from Medical School to study at Oxford...
...known as “Lorenzo the devil” in sixteenth-century Florence, the hedonistic favorite of the Duke Alessandro de Medici, his cousin and eventual assassin. Never predictable, mostly because he was perpetually drunk and always irreverent, he became a symbol of Florentine decadence, a worthy complement to the debauchery of Alessandro himself...
Lorenzo never mourns for the decay of Florence, despite the fact that, in murdering the Duke, she does what all the whining Republicans and hopeless exiles never dared. His madness—her madness—comes not out of dogma but out of an intense aversion to boredom. “Maybe I’ll be honest again,” she says, “and I won’t find it boring...