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The Chevalier de Lorraine was a notorious bisexual whose intimacy with the king’s brother was causing tensions in the royal family, and he had in effect been exiled to Rome.

Even more notorious was the thirty-year-old Théroigne de Méricourt, whom Mary had met while having dinner with Thomas Paine at his elegant hotel at 63 Faubourg Saint-Denis. Theatrical and impulsive, de Méricourt had swaggered in with dueling pistols attached to her belt and a sword at her waist. Famous for her outlandish behavior, she did not want to discuss the rights of women, she wanted to act on them, preferably with her sword.

[Michelangelo] was also notoriously mean. A miser, who wore clothes and boots until they were no more than rags, he pleaded abject poverty when in reality he owned the hills of Settignano where he was nursed as a baby, and had substantial bank deposits in Florence and Rome.

Hipparchus saw two men he recognized pushing their way toward him. Perhaps then, too late, he made sudden sense of his dream. For the two men were coming to murder him. One, Harmodius, was the handsomest man in Athens, “in the full splendour of his youth,” while the other, Aristogiton, was his lover—and Hipparchus, who had an aesthete’s eye for beauty, had attempted to split the couple for his own predatory ends, and thereby mortally offended them both.

There was a competing judicial astrologer, John Dee, operating on the fringe of the royal court in England at this time who was sometimes called in for consultation by the English government, but this was mostly because he was an expert on codes and counterintelligence tactics.

Marie and Hortense’s father, Lorenzo Mancini, was a Roman baron highly respected for his knowledge of astrology and necromancy.