She was well known for her grand romances with illustrious men, and for her apparently effortless knack of inspiring others.
Today you can visit one of the six pavilions, the one that housed "rich and illustrious men," as the guide explains on the 90-minute tours.
As Francesco Barbaro wrote to Poggio: "You have revived so many illustrious men and such wise men, who were dead from eternity".
She admired illustrious men and beautiful women and made monuments of both, even if the women mainly qualified by performing the role of somebody else.
Brief notoriety starting Monday, July 21st: The media learn that Andrew Cunanan, the suspect in the killing of Gianni Versace and four less illustrious men, had my most recent novel, "About Schmidt," in his room at the Normandy Plaza Hotel, in Miami Beach, his last official dwelling.
THE one sits in life-size bronze majesty, surrounded by her generals and other illustrious men, overlooking the Ring opposite the Burgtor entrance to the Hofburg; the other displays her tiny waist -- it looks to be about 17 inches -- and flowing tresses on chocolate boxes in many a pastry-shop window.
Many histories of our nation's founding focus on a small group, "a band of brothers" or "the Founding Fathers" -- the handful of illustrious men whose names we all know.
Its slightly less illustrious leading man is Mark Wahlberg (right), a disgraced ex-cop scraping by as a private eye.
We go from CESAR ROMERO, whom I first knew as the Joker on television's "Batman" but who had an illustrious leading man career in film that dated to 1933, to "Bridesmaids"'s KRISTEN WIIG and FACEBOOK PROFILE, which is brilliantly clued.
