Word: leoni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Melzi's son sold most of the manuscripts to one Pompeo Leoni, sculptor at the Spanish court, who in turn sold at least one volume to a Spaniard named Don Juan de Espina. This volume attracted the notice of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, friend to Anthony Van Dyck. For more than ten years the earl's agents nagged de Espina to sell. When Arundel died in 1646 he owned the book, but by that time Charles I had surrendered to the Scots rebels. Hence, suggests Kenneth Clark, the drawings did not at once pass to the British...
More than 150 years before, Pompeo Leoni had numbered them. Some time in the 15 years after Mr. Dalton opened the chest, somebody cut out and presumably destroyed about 180 of the 779 drawings. One of these, it is known, was a picture of a handsome young man embracing a hideous crone. The surviving drawings include a superb series of anatomical studies of men, not one of a woman. Kenneth Clark indicates, does not say, that someone in the prudish, provincial court of George III found the 180 in bad taste...
...Clark, clad in a wedding gown of tobacco leaves. A Cuban girl named Pilar Farfante and a man named Manuel Perez won the cigarmaking contest, she rolling her two cigars in 4 min. 35 4/5 sec., he in 2/5 sec. less. The decks were cleared for Dancer Nicki Leoni, who appeared in a disappointingly simple evening gown of native design. As the music grew faster and the dance grew hotter, she stripped off her dress bit by bit, finally emerged in a skirt and brassière of tobacco leaves-about enough to make six cigars (see cut). Later Governor...
...took pictures of his long-dead father and mother from the little black bag and sat them down before a mirror. Slowly he smeared his face with yellow paint, donned a snakey-cued China-man's wig. For that last afternoon he had chosen to sing in Franco Leoni's L'Oracolo, a one-act opera, second rate to be sure, but one which only he had sung at the Metropolitan, one which exhibited his talent for acting and made no strenuous demands on his voice...