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...name that looks hard but is actually easy to pronounce. The trick is to take one's time and roll it out slowly, Russian fashion, at full, length: "Josef Vis-sur-ee-ú-nun-vich Zoogoash...
Prayers: nightly, from a nun...
...worldly affairs, then went his own picaresque way down the primrose path. At 18 he had already tasted jail because of a "dormitory scandal." Sent on a mission to Constantinople, he became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi), famed Venetian jail so called because it was in the garret of the Ducal Palace, whose roof was covered with sheets of lead. Eventually he escaped, with the help...
...nun, the same who nursed Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau back to life when he was shot during the peace conference, made a low reply...
Died. Louisa Caselli, 108, Italian, "nun of Piedmont"; at Rome. She had lived under nine popes, five kings...