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The settlement in Darién prospered, but by 1512 intriguers at home were threatening to have the governor recalled. Balboa decided to stake everything on one magnificent gamble: he would cross the mountains and find the "other sea" of which his Indian friends spoke. Taking 190 picked compañ...
Sylvia was indeed a hit. For one thing, it moved to a perfectly lyrical score by the father of modern ballet music, Léo Delibes (1836-91). Delibes, a musical whiz-kid who was accepted at the Paris Conservatory when he was twelve, became a church organist in his...
Chastity & Chuckles. Far from being a follower, argued Berenson, Lotto was "a personal painter at a time when personality was fast getting to be of less account than conformity." Berenson praised his humor as so delicate that in the Triumph of Chastity (opposite, top), it escapes attention. True, Aphrodite and...
On the Mall and along the entire six-mile route of the coronation procession, Londoners and gawk-eyed visitors cheered London's bright new look. For months, the old city had looked as untidily unattractive as a dowager in a wrapper, curlers and mudpack. Statues were boarded up, the...
What excitement there was came after the balloting. In London on election night, crowds 15,000-strong thronged the traditional gathering places, Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus, to watch the returns posted on huge bulletin boards. Balloon hawkers ("Red, a tanner, blue, a tanner") did a brisk business in party...