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...Austrians who ruled northern Italy in the mid-19th century, the word Verdi was a nightmare. It haunted them from the very walls in huge letters, like the V sign of World War II. The great risorgimento that threw out the alien rulers and made the Italians a nation used Verdi as its symbolic pun-a tribute to Italy's greatest composer and a proud abbreviation for the name and title of its King, "Vittorio Emanuele, Re è d'Italia...
...Jemmy Hirst was a wealthy, mid-19th century ex-tanner who developed an un-British distaste for the horse "excepting on the racecourse." Hippophobe Hirst went shooting mounted on a massive bull of "uncertain temper," and used in place of pointers "a crowd of vivacious and sagacious pigs, all of whom answered to their names." In the Hirst living room the conversation piece was a large coffin which Mr. Hirst used as a bar. He was 90 when he died; the coffin was finally emptied of potables and, filled at last with Hirst, was "borne to the grave by eight...
Caught by his own question, Captain King did not reply. Neither does his biographer. In two hefty, handsomely illustrated volumes devoted to the history of the King Ranch, Artist-Novelist Tom (The Brave Bulls) Lea at first seems determined to show that Richard King's catalogue of mid-19th century Texans does not include Richard King...
...asphalt and under the elms, thousands of tourists were finding the peace of quiet ways and the charm of old things. Browsing through side-road antique stores, they gratefully swelled a business that has grown for four decades now, and keeps right on growing. Are antiques art? The mid-19th century farmer who carved a mold for his wife to make cookies for his little daughter's birthday would have smiled at the thought. He was an artist nonetheless, a creator of images and stretcher of imaginations in the days before TV. And unlike commercial art or entertainment, what...
...Austrian-born John Maass, the American Victorian buildings "are perfect symbols of an era which was not given to understatement. They are in complete harmony with the heavy meals, strong drink, elaborate clothes, ornate furnishings, flamboyant art, melodramatic plays, loud music, flowery speeches and thundering sermons of mid-19th century America. Most of our own buildings stand on the shifting quicksand of insecurity-Victorian architecture was founded on the rock of superb confidence...