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Despite such shortcomings, Princes of the Renaissance offers modest rewards, as it could hardly fail to do considering the richness of the period. Even the statistics in such a book can be intriguing: the 800 mistresses of Niccolo d'Este, the Marquis of Ferrara (one cannot help wondering who...
Because their motives and personalities are less obscured by distracting flamboyance, it is the women-the ones who loved the scoundrels-who emerge, almost subliminally, as the book's most understandable human beings. Lucrezia Borgia, unjustly slandered as a poisoner and profligate, seems much to be pitied -a woman...
Rockefeller had to hold over a day in Paraguay because riotous students had made Montevideo, Uruguay's capital and his next scheduled stop, unsafe for a visit. There were a number of firebombings, most aimed against firms with U.S. interests, and terrorists set fire to a General Motors plant...
Seven men, four of them carrying submachine guns, steal $220,000 from the Casino San Rafael in the plush seaside resort of Punta del Este - the biggest robbery 'in Uruguayan history. Several days later, after the thieves discover that some of the haul belongs to a pool for casino...
Lest anyone get the impression that airline stewardesses are losing their allure, the Cantegril Country Club in Punta del Este, Uruguay, has just completed its second annual "Queen of the Airline Hostesses" contest, which drew 13 beauties from as far away as India. Winner: Jill Spavin, 25, an American Airlines...