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by Juré Fiorillo


  Ser Piero da Vinci, 26, 28–30, 32–34, 36, 39, 40

  Seville, Spain, 45

  Seymour, Edward, 67

  Seymour, Jane, 67

  Seymour, Thomas, 67–68, 69

  Sforza, Ludovico, 28, 29

  sfumato, 37

  Shakespeare, William, The Comedy of Errors, 63

  Shaw, Artie, 222

  Shaw, John Byam Liston, 71

  Shiloh, Battle of, 162, 167–168

  Smithson, Hugh, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126

  Smithson, James, 118–129, 119, 126

  bequest to the United States, 118–121, 128–129

  birth of, 120

  citizenship of, 125

  death of, 121

  elected fellow of the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, 120, 126

  publications by, 128

  receives master of arts from Pembroke College, Oxford, 120, 123, 126

  remains relocated to Washington, D.C., 121, 129, 129

  scientific work of, 120–121, 126–129

  stigma of illegitimacy and, 123

  tours the Hebrides Islands, 120, 126

  Smithsonian Institution, 118, 120–121, 127, 128–129

  Smithsonian magazine, 129

  Somerset, England, 96

  Soto del Valle, Dalia, 245, 255

  Soviet Union, 245, 255–256

  Spain, 42, 44, 52, 63, 73, 78, 88, 89, 130, 132, 135, 137–139, 247, 249

  Spanish Armada, 63, 74–75, 78, 79

  Spanish colonies, 130–145, 140. See also specific colonies

  Speake, James, 166, 167

  Spenser, Edmund, The Faerie Queen, 63

  Stamford Bridge, 10, 19

  Stanley, Henry, 162, 166, 167

  Stanley, Henry Morton, 7, 160–177, 161, 175

  advises Leopold, 163, 177

  in Africa, 163, 171–172, 173, 174, 176–177

  in Arkansas, 162, 166–168

  autobiography of, 164–165, 166

  at Battle of Shiloh, 162, 167–168

  birth of, 162–163

  captured by Union troops and sent to military prison, 162, 168

  correspondent for New York Herald, 162, 163, 168

  covers Indian wars, 163, 169

  death of, 163

  deserts Union Army, 162

  enlists in Confederate Army, 162, 167–168

  enlists in the Navy as a writer, 168

  enlists in Union Army, 162

  find Livingstone, 162, 163

  finds Livingstone, 171–172, 174, 176–177

  as freelance correspondent, 162–163, 168–169, 171

  How I Found Livingstone, 171

  in Liverpool, 165

  on the Minnesota, 168

  in New Orleans, 162, 165–167

  receives knighthoood, 177

  returns to Britain, 177

  returns to Wales, 162, 168

  serves in Parliament, 177

  at St. Asalph’s workhouse, 162, 164–165

  in Turkey, 168

  in the U.S., 162–163, 165–167

  in the U.S. Civil War, 162–163, 166–168

  in Wales, 162

  on the Windemere, 166–167

  writes for the Missouri Democrat, 168–169

  in Zanzibar, 172

  Stanley, William H., 167–168

  St. Asaph Union Workhouse, 7

  Stasz, Clarice, American Dreamers: Charmian and Jack London, 191, 192

  St. Christopher, 104

  St. Croix, 102, 104–105, 106, 107, 109, 112, 116, 117

  St. Kitts, 106

  Storrs, Ronald, 204, 205

  Stuart, James Francis Edward, 101

  Succession Act, 70

  Suez Canal, 200–201

  Sullivan, Ed, 246

  Sussex, England, 11, 19

  Sydney, Algernon, 83

  Sydney, Robert, 83

  T

  Tanzania, 160, 172, 174, 176

  Taunton, England, 83, 95

  Taunton Castle, 100

  Thames River, 60

  Theodore, 169, 170

  Third Dutch War, 82, 86, 88

  Thomas, Lowell, With Lawrence in Arabia, 210

  Tilbury Camp, 63, 76, 78–79

  Time magazine, 222

  Touhe, Margaret, 217

  Tower Hill, 80

  Tower of London, 60, 62, 66–67, 72, 82

  Trowbridge, England, 96

  Trujillo, Spain, 42, 44, 48, 52

  Truman, Harry S., 246

  Tudor, Elizabeth. See Elizabeth I Tumbes, Peru, 51

  Turkey, 168, 200–210

  Turks, 94, 194, 195, 197, 208–209

  Tuscany, 37

  Twain, Mark, 177

  U

  Ujiji, 174

  Union Army, 162, 166–168

  United States, 7, 105, 120, 128–129, 245, 246, 255–256, 257

  Uruguay, 140

  U.S. Civil War, 162, 166–168

  U.S. Congress, 105, 118, 120–121

  U.S. Constitution, 105, 111

  14th Amendment, 7

  U.S. Supreme Court, 7

  V

  Val-ès-Dunes, 10, 14

  Victoria, 160, 171

  Vilcabamba, Peru, 58

  Vinci, Italy, 28, 30, 34

  W

  Wales, 7. See also United Kingdom

  Walpole, Horace, 126

  Walter, Lucy, 83

  Washington, D.C., 129

  Washington, George, 104, 105, 110, 111, 116

  the Watergate, 62

  Wayna Capac, 52

  Weehawken, New Jersey, 117

  Wellington, Duke of, 139

  Wellman, Flora, 178, 180, 181–182, 183, 185, 186, 191, 193

  Wells, England, 83

  West Indies, 106–107. See also St. Croix

  Westminster Abbey, 10, 11, 17

  West Virginia’s Federal Reformatory for Women, 225

  Whigs, 109

  White Hart Inn, 95

  William, Count of Arques, 14

  William III, 89, 94, 101

  Williams, Florence, 219

  William the Conqueror, 8, 8–25, 9, 20–21

  birth of, 10

  crowned king of England, 11, 25

  death of, 11, 25

  defeated at Montemer, 10, 14

  invades England, 10–11, 14

  invades Italy, 10, 14

  invades Sicily, 10, 14

  invades Spain, 10, 14

  knighted, 10, 13

  proclaimed Duke of Normandy, 10, 13

  Wilmington, North Carolina, 168

  Wilson, C. E., 204

  the Windemere, 166–167

  Wolsey, Thomas Cardinal, 63, 66

  Woodley, Leonard, 203

  Woodstock, England, 62, 72

  Woolley, Leonard, 200

  World War I, 194, 195, 197, 200–210, 208–209

  Wyatt, Thomas, 70, 72

  Wyck, Jan, 90–91

  Y

  York, Duke of, 82, 83, 86, 88, 93, 94

  Young, Lester, 214, 222, 223

  Young Turks, 202

  Z

  Zanzibar, 163, 172, 174, 176

  Zeid, 204

  Zuccari, Taddeo, The Rainbow Portrait, 61

  Text © 2010 by Juré Fiorillo

  First published in the USA in 2010 by

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  Hardcover edition: 978-1-59233-401-8

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Fiorillo, Juré.

 
; Great bastards of history : true and riveting accounts of the most famous illegitimate children who went on to achieve greatness / Juré Fiorillo.

  p. cm.

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN-13: 978-1-59233-401-8

  ISBN-10: 1-59233-401-6

  1. Biography. 2. Illegitimate children--Biography. 3. Successful people--Biography. I. Title.

  CT105.F45 2010

  920.02—dc22

  2009018754

  Cover and book design: Peter Long

  Book layout: Sheila Hart

  Photo research: Anne Burns Images

  Cover image: Portrait by Federico Fiori, 1605, Palazzo Piti, Florence, Italy/Bridgeman Art Library International;

  modified by Peter Long.

  Contributing writers: Juré Fiorillo (Introduction, Alexander Hamilton, James Smithson, Alexandre Dumas fils, Billie Holiday, Eva Perón, Fidel Castro); Alan Axelrod (Elizabeth I, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth); Edwin Kiester Jr. (William the Conqueror, Bernardo O’Higgins, Henry Stanley, Jack London, Lawrence of Arabia); Ed Wright (Leonardo da Vinci, Francisco Pizarro)

  Printed and bound in China

 

 

 


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