Obituary of Ninalee Allen Craig: 'American in Italy' (II)

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(2) David Schonauer, An Image of Innocence Abroad; Neither photographer Ruth Orkin nor her subject Jinx Allen realized the stir the collaboration would make. Smithsonian, October 2011.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/t ... ce-abroad-72281195/

Note:
(a) "Ninalee Craig, was 23 years old and, she says, a 'rather commanding' six feet tall when she caught Orkin's eye at the Hotel Berchielli, beside the Arno [river], August 21, 1951.:

Arno
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno
("passing through Florence * * * and Pisa" where the river empties into the sea; section 2 Etymology)
(b) "Allen wore a long skirt—the so-called New Look introduced by Christian Dior in 1947 was in full swing—with an orange Mexican rebozo over her shoulder, and she carried a horse’s feed bag as a purse. As she walked into the piazza, the men there took animated notice."
(i) rebozo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebozo
("Traditional rebozos are handwoven from cotton, wool, silk and rayon in various lengths but all have some kind of pattern * * * and have fringe [on two ends [width] of the rectangular shape]")
(ii) feedbag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedbag
(c)
(i) "Her expression in the photo is not one of distress, she says; rather, she was imagining herself as the noble, admired Beatrice from Dante's Divine Comedy. To this day she keeps a 'tacky' postcard she bought in Italy that year—a Henry Holiday painting depicting Beatrice walking along the Arno—that reminds her 'of how happy I was.' "

Dante and Beatrice (painting)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_and_Beatrice_(painting)
(the last paragraph)
(ii) Beatrice and Dante. Florence Inferno (blog), Dec 14, 2016
https://www.florenceinferno.com/beatrice-portinari/
("According to tradition, Dante and Beatrice were also neighbors outside the walls of Florence—near the hill of Fiesole, where the Portinari and Alighieri families had two neighboring summer villas. It is plausible that Dante and Beatrice met each other as children there.  He would meet her again nine years later in an unexpected fashion: Beatrice was walking along dressed in white and accompanied by two older women on Lungarno (one of the Florence streets along the Arno River).  She turned and greeted him. Dante remembered the episode well, but ran away without saying a word.  Her salutation filled him with such joy that he retreated to his room to think about her. In so doing he fell asleep and had a dream that would become the subject of the first sonnet in La Vita Nuova")
(d) "In some accounts, Orkin asked the man on the Lambretta to tell the others not to look into her camera."

Lambretta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambretta
(e) "disappointment follows the discovery that beloved pictures, such as Robert Doisneau's Kiss by the Hotel de Ville, were in any way set up."
(i) Robert Doisneau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Doisneau
(1912-1994; section 6 Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss) )
(ii) French-English dictionary:
* baiser (noun masculine and verb; from Latin): "(dated outside Canada) kiss"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/baiser
   ^ Instead the French (in France) uses
embrasser ([from Latin in in] en- +‎ [noun masculine; singular & plural same spelling] bras arm +‎ -er):
"1 : (dated) to hug, embrace
2 : to kiss"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embrasser
* hôtel (noun masculine; etymology)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hôtel
(iii) English dictionary:

hotel (n):
Online Etymology Dictionary
https://www.etymonline.com/word/hotel