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...barely out of his teens, and had been Grand Duke for only a couple of years, he had his court artist, Agnolo Bronzino, paint him as a peacemaker: Orpheus enchanting the wild beasts (civic discord) with his music, and naked in an allusion to his prowess as a lover. Cosimo encouraging the arts, Cosimo fostering scholarship, Cosimo bringing wealth, Cosimo subduing the city's enemies--there was nothing that Cosimo's artists did not show Cosimo doing for Florence...
...becomes Raeburn's touchstone. The issue I got seems to be about a man whose wife confesses that their voluptuous daughter is not his. He smothers the wife and gets the daughter drunk at the funeral, then rapes her. Once she learns of her true genealogy, she becomes his lover, in spite of his hand getting mangled in an unrelated, purely sensational work accident. Now handless, the cuckold finds the real father and tricks him into raping his own daughter. Then there appears to be some sort of twist, sending the amputee to prison where he hangs himself...
...Miles, One Unusual Way to Stay With Your Lover...
...says her work uncovers the secret lives of adults, in which everyone but the least confident engages in the occasional infidelity on the side. She sought to explain the method behind smart cheating, telling future mistresses to always keep a 50-mile distance between them and their married lover...
There is a certain type of person who is drawn into the underworld of unfaithful relationships. It’s the girl who seeks perfection in a lover; it’s the guy who always likes to feel in control. At Harvard we know competition and many of us know how to prioritize ourselves—our needs—above all. Brandt says Harvard couldn’t be a more ideal breeding ground for the psyche of the cheater—and looking at the real-life stories, it’s hard to disagree...