Word: annunzio
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...Assisi, where once St. Francis preached the joy of a holy life in poverty. There were some on the excursion trains last week who cared not a bean for the first Franciscan. But all were ardent Fascists who pilgrimaged to see the poet-hero of Fascismo, famed Gabriele D'Annunzio...
Guglielmo Marconi was in Rome last week, just as the Rota, (highest Catholic marriage court) was about to hand down a decision annulling his marriage, in 1905, to the Hon. Beatrice O'Brien. Two years ago the Marconis obtained a divorce in Fiume, under the accommodating D'Annunzio régime. Onetime Signora Marconi has since remarried. It was supposed that Catholic annulment was sought either that she might have her marriage sanctioned by her Church, or that Signor Marconi too might remarry with Catholic ritual. Gossips thought they knew his new lady-one Elizabeth Paynter...
Thus, to awed and adoring Italian newsgatherers, spoke the Prince of Montenevoso, famed as Gabriele D'Annunzio, upon the theme, "Why I Fascinate Women...
Signer D'Annunzio, foremost of Italy's poets and World War heroes, spoke outside the canons of Anglo-Saxon good taste but spoke the truth. None the less, Hearst Editor Brisbane, conqueror upon no field of arms, and certainly of no spirit so exalted as the great Duse's, was moved to carp, last week, at Poet Gabriels...
...Brisbane, 62, wrote: "Marvelously ugly, completely bald, physically feeble, spiritually a giant, it is pleasant to know that D'Annunzio is happy in his old age, and that with genius, as with common men, there is no fool like an old fool...