Then, on August 23, Rudy died. His death enraged me and his funeral sickened me. A month before his death his physician in Hollywood had examined him and said he was in perfect shape, and up to the very end his doctors in New York were broadcasting encouraging reports about his recovery while they kept him sedated and flat on his back. People lined up for ten blocks to file past his corpse, and mobs of women in the street in front of Campbell's funeral parlor screamed and tore their hair. Pola Negri took center stage and claimed to be the only woman Valentino had ever loved.

Coronation of the Virgin, 1490, Domenico Ghirlandaio