Word: silvanus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From contemporary portraits and medallions, Wind has identified Mercury as Alfonso's brother Ippolito, Silenus as Pietro Bembo (who later became a cardinal), Silvanus as Painter Bellini himself. Since the Feast was finished several years after the wedding, Alfonso's son Ercole might have played the barrel-tapping little Bacchus...
...Silvanus Bourn writes, in another epistle, that he would have to borrow a pair of shoes to walk to Boston and that to buy a new pair would cost 30 dollars. During the winter of 1777-78 an order was issued to close the college due to the fuel shortage...
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