Titus Livius Patavinus (59 BC – AD 17) — known as Livy in English — was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people. Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Books from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the traditional foundation in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own time. He was on familiar terms with the Julio-Claudian family, advising Augustus's grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, as a young man not long before 14 AD in a letter to take up the writing of history. Livy and Augustus's wife, Livia, were from the same clan in different locations, although not related by blood.
Livy was born as Titus Livius in Patavium in northern Italy, now modern Padua. There is a debate about the year of Titus Livius' birth, 64 BC or more likely 59 BC. At the time of Livy’s birth, his home city of Patavium was the second wealthiest city in the Italian peninsula. Patavium was a part of the province of Cisalpine Gaul at the time. In his works, Livy often expressed his deep affection and pride for Patavium, and the city was well known for its conservative values in morality and politics.
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Delicate Innocence tells the tragic story of a beautiful young and vulnerable girl who is scammed into a sex trap. There she shares her fate with many others who too have fallen victims to Human Trafficking.
Teen sex, teen angst, teen love. Very adult Monopoly.
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Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. Under his near-obsessive guidance, young ballerina Victoria Page is poised for superstardom, but earns Lermontov's scorn when she falls in love with Julian Craster, composer of "The Red Shoes," the ballet Lermontov is staging to showcase her talents. Vicky leaves the company and marries Craster, but still finds herself torn between Lermontov's demands and those of her heart.
Keywords: anger, aunt-niece-relationship, backstage, balcony, ballerina, ballet, ballet-company, ballet-impresario, ballet-shoe, ballet-slippers
Dance she did, and dance she must - between her two loves
A Dancing, Singing, Swinging Love Tale
Between her art ... and her dreams ... was her heart
[Before the curtain goes up on the premiere]::Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne: You're a magician, Boris. To have produced all this in three weeks, and from nothing.::Boris Lermontov: My dear Livy, not even the best magician in the world can produce a rabbit out of a hat if there is not already a rabbit in the hat.
Boris Lermontov: Don't forget, a great impression of simplicity can only be achieved by great agony of body and spirit.
[Describing the ballet of the Red Shoes]::Boris Lermontov: "The Ballet of The Red Shoes" is from a fairy tale by Hans Andersen. It is the story of a young girl who is devoured with an ambition to attend a dance in a pair of Red Shoes. She gets the shoes and goes to the dance. For a time, all goes well and she is very happy. At the end of the evening she is tired and wants to go home, but the Red Shoes are not tired. In fact, the Red Shoes are never tired. They dance her out into the street, they dance her over the mountains and valleys, through fields and forests, through night and day. Time rushes by, love rushes by, life rushes by, but the Red Shoes go on.::Julian Craster: What happens in the end?::Boris Lermontov: Oh, in the end, she dies.
Boris Lermontov: How would you define ballet, Lady Neston?::Lady Neston: Well, one might call it the poetry of motion perhaps, or...::Boris Lermontov: One might. But for me it is a great deal more. For me it is a religion. And one doesn't really care to see one's religion practised in an atmosphere... such as this.
Boris Lermontov: Why do you want to dance?::[Vicky thinks for a short while]::Victoria Page: Why do you want to live?::[Lermontov is suprised at the answer]::Boris Lermontov: Well I don't know exactly why, er, but I must.::Victoria Page: That's my answer too.
Grischa Ljubov: You can't alter human nature.::Boris Lermontov: No? I think you can do even better then that. You can ignore it!
Boris Lermontov: You cannot have it both ways. A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love can never be a great dancer. Never.
[first lines]::[holding doors closed]::Doorman: They're going mad, sir. It's the students.::[From outside]::Julian Craster: Down with tyrants!::Manager, Covent Garden: All right, let them in.
[last lines]::Victoria Page: Julian?::Julian Craster: Yes, my darling?::Victoria Page: Take off the red shoes.
Julian Craster: Vicky?::Victoria Page: Julian I love you!::Julian Craster: But you love that more.