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Frankie was a Boston Italian, second generation, so he could talk like a Heming-wayman and get away with it: his mother did not speak English so good. Frankie had left a fair job in a factory for a much better one, driving a truck for Bootlegger Visconti. His hours were long but he worked only one day a week. Good & bad luck hit Frankie about the same time. He met Rosie at a dance hall, and he got a warning from a rival 'legger that hereafter his weekly trip would not be safe...
Heavyset, square-faced, unhandsome, awkward, Henri Beyle had many mistresses, but in his whole life loved only one woman besides his mother: Mathilde Visconti. She was faithful to her husband, and would have none of Henri. Proud of his English, he could not make himself understood in London when he wanted to buy a jar of jam. His books were not successful; the publisher of one of them wrote to him: "The book must be sacred-nobody seemed even to dare to touch it." His friends were not sure of him: his remarks, written and printed, might have been irony...
...finest coins of the ancients. The chief Italian and the chief French master in works of this class, Vittore Pisano, and Dupre, are represented in this collection. Among the portraits by these and other medalists are those of Alfonzo V of Aragon, Lionello D'Este of Ferrara, Filippe Maria, Visconti of Milan, Leon Battista Alberti, Cosimo de Medici and Lorenzo de Medici. The medals are, for the most part, of considerable size, ranging from 40 or 50 to nearly 200 millimetres in diameter...