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LATH: Corso Orsini
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I notice that Corso and Orsini (Corso Orsini is a street crossed in LATH by Vadim, a few minutes before he gets paralized), blend in Corsini, a Florentine princely family. Its founder, Neri Corsini, who lived in the 12th century, probably came from Corsica. In 1730 Lorenzo Corsini was was elected pope as Clement XII. Ieronim Dominikovich Corsini (1808-76) was a Russian architect and painter. He is the author of the beautiful fence in front of the Sheremetev palace in St. Petersburg at the Fontanka embankment. Like Florence ("Louise was in Florence or Florida"), Fontanka is mentioned in LATH (in the chapter where Vadim describes his visit to Leningrad): "From travelers I knew that our ancestral mansion no longer existed, that the very lane where it had stood between two streets in the Fontanka area had been lost, like some connective tissue in the process of organic degeneration." (Part Five, 1)
Alexey Sklyarenko
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