Word: lorenzo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the legend which appealed most strongly to Poet Lorenzo da Ponte when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart asked him for an operatic subject.* Da Ponte was busy at the time with commissions from Emperor Joseph II, but working furiously, inspired by snuff, Tokay and his landlady's 16-year-old daughter, he wrote the libretto for which Mozart, writing notes with the same prodigality, composed the music of the opera known as Don Giovanni...
...throughout Lorenzo the Magnificent: Lorenzo "was perhaps a coward, a man of no principles and very little honor, inconstant, an opportunist, frivolous, and Epicurean. But he was neither brute nor a fanatical hypocrite nor a lecherous beast. ... All he wanted was peace . . . the good things of this world, wealth, and fun and art and love and learning." CYRANO-Cameron Rogers-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON-Dmitri Merezhkovsky-Dutton ($3). THE PHANTOM EMPEROR: THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF NAPOLEON III- Octave Aubry-Harper ($2.50). Many U. S. citizens go to Europe. Few know any history except the Anglo-American...
...later became Governor of Rome. At 16 she was described as "a beautiful young girl, high spirited, with the daring recklessness of a lad." She was called the Countess Annette Bentivoglio. At 26 she put away the world, entered the Poor Clare Convent in San Lorenzo. Thereafter she was known as "Mother Mary Magdalene." In time she journeyed to the U. S., founded a convent in Omaha, and one in Evansville...
Charles Gates Dawes went to Santo Domingo a month ago as a Chicago banker and onetime U. S. Budget Director to devise a budgetary and accounting system for that diminutive republic. When he returned last week to Manhattan aboard the S. S. San Lorenzo he was the newly-appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Retiring Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton, who also returned to the U. S. last week, predicted a "happy and successful term" for Ambassador Dawes...
Giuliano was only a mediocre Medici. In any other family he might have been superb. But the Medicis were a flamboyant line, running to both seraphic and sulphurous extremes. Giuliano's father was Lorenzo the Magnificent, mighty patron of the arts and writer of bawdy ditties, a politically high-minded ruler whose actions were tyrannous. Giuliano's brother was Pope Leo X, a dilettante and politician who palely reflected his father's glories. Giuliano himself had the aquiline features and dark locks of his tribe. But he did not have the spouting energy. He met and married...