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After that Aretino began working the nobility. The crooked Marquis of Mantua, violent Giovanni della Bande Nere became patrons and friends. Then through miscalculating some smart moves he was nearly murdered, moved to Venice for safety. He spent the rest of his life there. Emperor Charles V and the Doge were among his patrons. He spent his cadgings bottomlessly on himself, on poor people, and on the women and artist bums who swarmed his house. He tirelessly promoted his friend Titian; managed, by two extraordinary letters, to scare Francis I out of an alliance with Turkey; quarreled with everyone from...
...Habsburg custom is that the King-Emperor does not sully himself with money (convenient since Otto's family never had much); so someone had to accompany him wherever he went, and dig down into unregal jeans whenever the Emperor wanted some cigarets. Under the Schuschnigg regime, Austria restored a few estates to the family, but the Nazis took them away again and gave them to war veterans...
...shrewd, ambitious mother kept telling Otto that he would one day be Emperor. Fanatically religious, she went to church five times a day, and entrusted Otto's education to three Benedictine monks. Because he might one day rule over many lands, she made him learn many tongues: Hungarian, German, French, English, Spanish, Basque, Croatian, Czech, and "300 words of Finnish." When Otto was ready for a university, his whole family moved to Belgium so he could attend Louvain. Otto learned to live with the austerity of his great granduncle Franz Josef-in a two-room suite like Franz Josef...
...success. He said nothing, and said it briefly, elegantly, forcefully. He was not worried about financial matters because he had achieved the major political triumph of persuading former Finance Minister Sotaro Ishiwata to demean himself to be the Premier's own secretary; nor about military matters because the Emperor had taken the spectacular, unprecedented step of calling in General Hata to bid the Army obey the Cabinet...
...Navy Minister when Japan went to war, when the Navy let itself be sucked into the battle of Shanghai, when the Panay was bombed. He is said to have torpedoed an open military alliance with Germany last year with the remark: "The Japanese Navy belongs to the Emperor. It is not for hire by Hitler, or anyone else...