Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine singing and clowning. Fat Fernando Corena sat in a fat chair and glared suspiciously at everybody; tall, skinny Jerome Hines wore a crazy hat, sat in a tall, skinny chair, giving him arguments. The heroine seemed to have two other men on the hook, a nobleman named Cesare Valletti and the barber, sung by Robert Merrill. It was pretty confusing, especially when the soldiers came on, tramped back and forth and nobody seemed to be in charge, but everybody certainly could sing...
GIUSEPPE MARIA PIGNATELLI (1737-1811) was born a Spanish nobleman and became a Jesuit over family opposition. At the time the Jesuits were being suppressed in nearly every country; as Provincial in Italy he did much to restore the order's power and prestige...
Early in the xyth century, a Roman nobleman commissioned three famed artists of the day to paint their versions of Ecce Homo (Pilate presenting Christ to the mob). He bought the one that pleased him best, by Lodovico Cigoli, and eventually it passed to the Pitti Palace at Florence. Another version, by Domenico Passignano, is lost. The third, by the great Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, also disappeared...
...With 10.000 people living in the chateau at Versailles, it was as crowded as a slum. The bearer of many a celebrated name had to be content with a dismal attic room, though it seemed to be worth it to bask in the rays of the Sun King: the nobleman of the day counted himself lucky if he could become the official custodian of the royal chamber...
...considered a mere "vegetable with powers of locomotion." Some noblemen of wit and wealth defied the King's pique and choseParis. It was a dirty city. The streets were choked with mud and refuse, and the stench could be smelled two miles outside the city gates. Here, a nobleman lived on a grand scale. A bachelor might have "37 servants, of whom five are the personal attendants of the five senior servants." A childless couple might manage with 65 or so servants, but would require several more if there were children. The nobles, to the extent of their means...