"A man who has not sunk a molar into a fig newton, " Dirksen would announce, his gray-golden ringlets vibrating with emotion, "has let much of life pass him by!"
Images sent back from the Cassini spacecraft (which has been in orbit around Saturn since 2004) have revealed how the fine structure of the rings is broken up into intricate patterns of thousands of ringlets and gaps.
Gordigiani's beautiful "Portrait of the Marchesa Maria Luisa Ginora Lisci" (1884) shows the aristocratic Florentine in the couture finery and fake ringlets for which she was famous, and his smiling daughter "Giulietta as a Young Girl" (circa 1887) is a beguiling charmer.