Word: fra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most successful fusion of spoken and unspoken words occurs in the craggy uplands of literature, where a talented ham can jump and shout without trampling the daisies. James Mason smacks and snuffles his way through the fevered minds of Andrea del Sarto, Fra Lippo Lippi and the tomb-haunted bishop in Poetry of Browning (Caedmon) in a reading that can illuminate a character with a sigh...
There was a Pope on the Pamphili side: Innocent X, whose immortal portrait by Velásquez hangs in the picture gallery. The palace also contains a Claude Lorrain landscape, a Fra Filippo Lippi Annunciation, Caravaggio's Rest on the Flight into Egypt to see and admire. One of the most interesting pictures is a portrait by Sebastiano del Piombo of Admiral Andrea,* the greatest of the Dorias, a buccaneer of a man and a hero of history...
...some other Baconians, Shakespeare's epitaph was the source of all sorts of speculation. Using Bacon's cipher, one man translated the inscription to read SAEHR/BAYEEP/RFTAXA/RAWAR, crossed out the letters S-H-A-X-P-E-A-R-E, and by rearranging the remaining letters got FRA BAWRT EAR AY (i.e., "Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays"). Another investigator made each capital in the inscription stand for one, and, after counting the number of letters between them, produced...
...Among them: Raphael's Madonna of the Chair, Fra Angelico's Marriage of the Virgin, sculptures by Donatello, Cellini and Michelangelo, all from Florence's museums...
...none other than Hitler's sister Paula, who has long gone by the name of Paula Wolf. Paula was not in arrears on her rent, but her landlord seemed to fear that she soon might be. Reason: as the only survivor of Hitler's immediate family. Fraülein Wolf has long hoped for a hunk of Hitler's great fortune, but her prospects of getting even a pfennig of it have dimmed to the vanishing point. Facing her eviction stoically, Paula indulged in some fond reminiscences of her late big brother: "He was kind...