Cleopatra was more in her line, or La Donna di Garbo in the play by Goldoni. The haughty beauty dangling her lovers on a string. But vulnerability was not beyond her capabilities as an actor. She took as her model St Catherine of Alexandria, her name sake in the famous painting by Caravaggio, lea...
Naples, the largest city in Italy. It sprawled almost voluptuously in the early afternoon sun, curving in a wide crescent along the shores of the bay that bore its name, flanked by the mountains of Vesuvius and Posillipo to north and south. It was the first of these that naturally occupied Nathan...
his lordship consulted the list that lay before him and blinked in affected wonderment at its length and variety, “and being summoned to answer for them to your superiors, you embarked upon a course of action which, had it proved fatal, would have rendered your country and your sovereign an even ...