Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play is based on the story of Francesca and Paolo, from Dante's Inferno. Francesca, the beautiful wife of Giovanni Malatesta, a hunchbacked nobleman, is in love with her husband's brother, Paolo. Paolo has visited Francesca every day for a year to read her romantic poetry. One day he reads her the tale of how Launcelot first kissed Queen Guenivere, and that day is "the day they read of it no more." When Giovanni sees them Jeave arm in arm, he decides to murder them...
...Alessandro Farnese (Pope Paul 111) was made a cardinal when only 25, led the worldly life of a Renaissance nobleman, and had at least two illegitimate children whom he recognized. Elected Pope in 1534, he appointed a son, Pier Luigi, cardinal and secretary of state...
...looks like an English nobleman stalking an elk. His mustache would shame a venerable walrus. He is Theodore Sizer, 71, Professor emeritus of the history of art at Yale, a Harvard graduate ('15) and a 20th century go-getter who gets up and goes in unmistakable 18th century style. Since his 1957 retirement from teaching, "Tubby" Sizer has continued to design the banners and coats-of-arms for Yale's schools and colleges, had previously been cited for "all manner of felicitous embellishment," and last week was officially named Pursuivant of Arms, which Yale proudly proclaims...
Salgueiro's theme this year is the tale of Dom João Fernandes de Oliveira, a Portuguese nobleman who arrived in Brazil in 1761 with a royal deed to Brazil's richest diamond mine, Tijuco, in the landlocked interior state of Minas Gerais. To Dom João's castle, Brazil's most aristocratic mothers brought their loveliest daughters. But Dom João spurned them all for a Negro slave girl named Chica da Silva. Dom João fell madly in love, bought Chica and installed her as head of his household...
...even the Marquis de Lafayette, the French nobleman who fought beside George Washington, got U.S. citizenship directly. Granted citizenship in the ex-colonies of Maryland and Virginia, the Marquis (and all his male descendants) automatically thereby became a citizen of the Republic in 1788 when the Constitution was ratified...