Word: orsini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duels, tortures, trials, Valerie rising naked from her bath, and plenty of antique dressmaking chatter. As lavish with his color, Author Shellabarger is much the subtler hand with characters and story-though in this field "subtle" is strictly a comparative term. Prince of Foxes begins in Venice, with Andrea Orsini bowing low before the lovely Camilla degli Baglioni. Foxy Andrea can tell that Camilla is una illustrissima, but how is Camilla to know that Andrea, for all his fine clothes, is the son of a blacksmith? Prince of Foxes is laid in the same era as Somerset Maugham...
Died. Prince Domenico Napoleone Orsini, 78, Prince Assistant to the Pontifical Throne, highest honorary lay office in the Vatican court, head of one of Rome's top-ranking families; in Rome-twelve days after the death of the head of the Orsinis' historic rivals, Prince Marcantonio Colonna (TIME, March...
CARMINE F. ORSINI...