Word: noblewomen
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...endless round of parties that constitute an Austen novel. As she speaks her wry epigrams, she brandishes a smile that suggests wisdom gaily bestowed on lesser mortals. Though it crinkles with warmth, it is exactly one shade too pleased with itself. Emma could be one of nature's noblewomen, if only she would stop trying to stage-manage other people's lives. Graceful and witty, she is a goddess whose comic flaw is that she wants to play...
...fanciful literary tropes seriously. Ovid's Ars Amatoria is often cited as a major source of misreadings, its instructions followed, its ironies ignored. Other prime suspects include the 12th century troubadours in Provence who more or less invented the Art of Courtly Love, an elaborate, etiolated ritual for idle noblewomen and aspiring swains that would have been broken to bits by any hint of physical consummation...
...fringed picnic basket that an 18th century Corsini cardinal once took into the Vatican conclave from which he emerged, basket on arm, as Pope Clement XII. The Serristori loaned their priceless illuminated manuscripts, as well as two elaborately decorated Renaissance trays once used to carry water to noblewomen in labor. A plate bearing the arms of Roberto Strozzi and Maddalena de Medici marked one of the great weddings of the 16th century. A delicately inlaid table had been the gift of Clement VII to his Governor of Bologna, Francesco Guicciardini...
Based on an ancient legend, the plot explores a soldier's attempt to win love in the same way he won honor; by force. The warrior, a brave but bestial knight named Moritoh, is struck with an insane desire for a noblewomen, Lady Kesa. Finding that she is already married, he can only answer her love for her husband with threats of bloodshed. The final victory of love over violence is inevitably tragic...
...stories in The Knights of the Cape picture heroes, generals, saints, friars, noblemen and noblewomen, devils and goblins. Only the devils and goblins really work at their trades. The heroes are always engaged in rascality, the generals swindle the tradesmen, the friars gorge themselves, the saints drive hard bargains in horseflesh, the nobility tomcats around Lima's midnight streets...