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But Beerbohm surprises us. Once the mask has been removed, La Gambogi discovers, as do George and his new wife, that the face beneath the mask now matches what the mask displayed to the world—the face of a saint.
Russell D. Roberts • Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of the obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth-century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German monk toward the end of the fourteenth century.
William Weaver • The Name of the Rose
This funky wine-and-grappa bar is still run by Oreste (with his Chicagoan wife, Beverly) like a 1970s, old-style enoteca. Browse and sample and clown around with Oreste. This historic enoteca was once the private chapel of the archbishop of Verona. Traces of the past hide between the bottles—ask Beverly to tell you the story (light food, Tue-Sun 8:
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Amore mio aiutami - Main Theme
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John Boswell • Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
Viola imposed upon her lover but a short probation. They were married, as was becoming, with great privacy, – almost with secrecy, – in the hope perhaps, as was waggishly remarked at the time, that the late Mrs Lloyd wouldn’t hear of it.
Susie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; come with me from Lebanon.