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...late 50s or early 60s, was branded on both cheeks for that. In later years he was in and out of dungeon and lived under a cloud of civic disapproval, while Durer, some 30 years his junior, dined with humanists and councilmen and enjoyed a life stipend from Emperor Maximilian...
...office hours and SCR meals are attended only by the sycophants... and by those who have seen the emperor's clothes and realize the faculty to be human...
...messier and more full-blooded fault, a form of generosity, almost, but one that has come unhinged. Ideally, world-class plundering should try to pay its way as entertainment. The Romans had a genius for transforming loot into colossally vulgar display, ostentation on an imperial scale. The Emperor Elagabalus, it is said, ordered his slaves to bring him 10,000 lbs. of cobwebs. When they finished the task, Elagabalus observed, "From this, one can understand how great a city is Rome." Louis XIV of France wore a diamond-covered coat that, at the turn of the 18th century, was worth...
Napoleon's young aide-de-camp, General Gaspard Gourgaud, left a journal describing the Emperor's last years on St. Helena, a speck of British territory in the South Atlantic. Gourgaud's entries, unintentionally hilarious, record the great man's stupendous banality after he lost the thing that made him interesting -- his power. "October 21 (1815). I walk with the Emperor in the garden, and we discuss women. He maintains that a young man should not run after them . . . November 5. The Grand Marshal (Montholon) is angry because the Emperor told him he was nothing but a ninny . . . January...
...membership is scattered. Ferdinand Marcos will evidently settle in Hawaii. "Baby Doc" Duvalier has moved to the French Riviera, at least for the time being. Uganda's Idi Amin has managed to make himself all but invisible in Saudi Arabia. The Central African Republic's Emperor Bokassa has found a home near Paris. And so on. But such men are rarely welcomed, and never feel at home, in the places where the jet stream has deposited them. They keep out of sight...