Word: rezzonica
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...just love my nose-goes with the setting," said the masked guest, tilting his twelve-inch rubber proboscis toward the Tiepelo frescoes on the ceiling of Venice's Palazzo Ca' Rezzonica. It was the season's gaudiest Ballo in Maschera (masked ball), and more than 500 of the plumiest knights and dames of the international round table had donned their most expensive armor to dance, taste champagne, guess each other's identities and incidentally raise money for the Venetian artisans still suffering the effects of last November's widespread floods. When the masks came...
...Philadelphia; has more than often been bored there. His wife is clever, self-sufficient, politically-minded and not in love with him. His son, after a correct education, is started well with one of the smart brokerage firms of the city. His daughter has been married "brilliantly" to Prince Rezzonica and lives in Italy except for rare visits to America. The conditions seem ideal to Dorn for his move and he is about to get off when Delice, the Princess Rezzonica, appears on one of her rare visits...
Delice and her father journey to the villa at Como to think things out. Prince Rezzonica, having a few affairs to keep going in various villas thereabouts, leaves his own place for weeks on end. Delice has discovered that he has become a drug addict and Dorn attempts to clear things up by talking to Rezzonica in no uncertain terms. The prince commits suicide. Dorn and Delice pack...
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