The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, & Madness in Seventeenth-Century England by Adrian Tinniswood

Author:Adrian Tinniswood [Tinniswood, Adrian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781101652442
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2008-05-05T23:00:00+00:00

* Richard Lassels, The Voyage of Italy (1670), 8. Most of the names on Lassels’s list are still familiar. Simone del Pollaiuolo Cronaca (1457–1508) was a Florentine; his masterpiece is generally reckoned to be S. Francesco al Monte. The Mannerist sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (c. 1493–1560) was routinely mentioned in the same breath as Cellini and Michelangelo by seventeenth-century commentators. Pier Paolo Olivieri (1551–1599) is best known today for his colossal statue of Pope Gregory XIII in S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome.

* Newton eventually inherited Jane Puckering’s fortune. It was somewhat depleted, having been sequestrated in 1646 on the novel grounds that although her father died in 1637, he would obviously have been a Royalist if he had lived to see the war.

* Some family relationships were more welcome than others. Tom’s formidable wife Joyce was rumored to be either dead or separated from her husband and living in Italy. Sir Ralph was anxious in case it was the latter, writing to England to find out exactly where she might be, “for I neither desire to visit her nor to be visited by her” (Memoirs of the Verney Family I, 546). Whatever her fate, she disappeared from the Verneys’ lives around this time, never to be seen again. At one point Tom mentioned having a wife in Malaga, but it is not clear whether he was referring to Joyce.

* The miracle of St. Januarius and his liquefying blood still takes place in the Cathedral at Naples today.

* William Bray (ed.), The Diary of John Evelyn (1907), January 18, 1645. Evelyn mentioned in passing that “the roof also is full of rare work.”

* March 1, 1652; (M636/11). Sir Ralph wanted his uncle to find out about the quality of stone coming out of Sir Thomas Coghill’s quarries at Bletchingdon in Oxfordshire. Seventeen years later Coghill’s daughter Faith became the first wife of Christopher Wren.

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